US Patent Issued to University of Notre Dame du Lac on April 29 for "Heart and lung monitoring with coherent signal dispersion" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,246, issued on April 29, was assigned to University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Ind.).

"Heart and lung monitoring with coherent signal dispersion" was invented by Thomas G. Pratt (Niles, Mich.), Jeffrey G. Mueller (South Bend, Ind.) and Robert D. Kossler (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for sensing a physiological characteristic of a subject. At least one receiver antenna can be provided in proximity to a portion of the subject's body to obtain at least one receiver signal resulting from at least one transmitter signal that has propagated to the receiver antenna and has been reflected, diffrac...