US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on March 18 for "Respiration rate measurement system" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,210, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Respiration rate measurement system" was invented by Tam Ngoc Vu (Boulder, Colo.), Robin Deterding (Boulder, Colo.), Hoang Truong (Boulder, Colo.) and Nam Ngoc Bui (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respiration rate measurement apparatus including a plurality of sensors for concurrently generating temperature, pressure and acoustic data representing one or more successive breaths and a method of generating fusion data from the plurality of data streams as a weighted average based on determined correlation coefficients and c...