US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Dec. 9 for "Noninvasive heart failure detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,288, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Noninvasive heart failure detection" was invented by Niema M. Pahlevan (Los Angeles), Rashid Alavi Dehkordi (Los Angeles) and Ray V. Matthews (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to non-invasive techniques for determining whether a patient has experienced heart failure. In some embodiments, a machine learning model may be trained to determine whether the patient has experienced heart failure using blood pressure waveforms and ECGs taken concurrently. Using the intrinsic frequency methodology and the cardiac triangle ...