US Patent Issued to The Vektor Group on Jan. 13 for "Encoding electrocardiographic data" (Georgia, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,434, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Vektor Group Inc. (San Diego).

"Encoding electrocardiographic data" was invented by Robert Joseph Krummen (Bellevue, Wash.), Christopher J. T. Villongco (Roswell, Ga.) and Alexander Michael Monko (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating an encoding of a lead of electrocardiogram (ECG) represented as an ECG image. The system identifies a reference pulse of the ECG image having a reference width pixel count, a reference height pixel count, a reference time, and a reference voltage. The system identifies a baseline pixel-row of a plotline of the ECG image that c...