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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Noam Gavriely, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
Karmel Medical Acoustic Technologies Ltd., Yokneam-Illit, IL;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/08 ; A61B 5/103 ; A61B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/08 ; A61B 5/103 ; A61B 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method of differentiating between OSA and CSA comprising: determining if chest motion above a chest motion threshold is present; determining if tracheal breath sound above a breath sounds threshold are present, classifying a state as OSA if the chest motion is above the threshold and the sounds are below the threshold; and classifying a state as CSA if both the chest motion and sounds are below their respective thresholds.