ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,244, issued on July 15, was assigned to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).

"System and method for diagnosing and notification regarding the onset of a stroke" was invented by Kevin N. Sheth (Madison, Conn.), Hitten P. Zaveri (New Haven, Conn.) and Ronald R. Coifman (North Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time automated method to diagnose and/or detect stroke and engage the patient, care-takers, emergency medical system and stroke neurologists in the management of this condition includes the steps of continuously measuring natural limb activity, conveying the measurements to a cloud based real-time data processing s...