ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,851, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Guangzhou, China).

"Method, system, apparatus and medium for monitoring abdominal respiration based on ultrasound image" was invented by Nan Hu (Guangzhou, China), Fengshan Huang (Guangzhou, China), Shihao Hu (Guangzhou, China) and Mingfu Ye (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method, system, apparatus and storage medium for monitoring abdominal breathing based on ultrasound image, comprising, an abdominal ultrasound image of user at the end of calm expiration and during the abdominal respiration is a...