US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE on Sept. 23 for "Device for automatically detecting lung function variability" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,537, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.).

"Device for automatically detecting lung function variability" was invented by Kofi Odame (Hanover, N.H.) and Justice Amoh (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for detecting and quantifying lung function includes a piezoelectric sensor configured for attachment to a mammalian chest wall and to feed signals to an ADC providing digitized signals to a processor. The processor firmware extracts inspiration and expiration times from the digitized signals and generates an I/E ratio from them. The processor has firmware to detect w...