"Non-Invasive System And Method For Detecting And Accurately Quantifying Subclinical And Clinical Systolic And Diastolic Heart Failure" in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20240008837).

A patent application by inventor Robert Alan Hirsh has been made available online for a non-invasive system and method for detecting and accurately quantifying subclinical and clinical systolic and diastolic heart failure. The current methods of diagnosis and quantification only serve to characterize and quantify symptoms in people who are already stricken with the illness, and are not sensitive or reliable enough to serve as a screening test for people who have subclinical or preclinical disease. The invention aims to provide a new way to process and derive clinical meaning and prognoses from physiomic data, using the Wiggers Diagram to extract data related to electrical and mechanical cardiac activity. The system includes non-invasive electronic and mechanical heart function measurement devices, a computer platform, and a processing unit to determine inotropic and lusitropic electrical mechanical time intervals and calibration curves for the patient's heart function. The system compares these calibration curves to universal intercept-slope tradeoff functions stored in memory to assess myocardial well-being or pathology. The method also includes determining universal intercept-slope tradeoff functions for inotropic and lusitropic function by measuring strain rates and electrical mechanical intervals in healthy patients. The patent application includes 14 claims related to the system, method, and computer-readable medium storing the universal tradeoff functions. [Extracted from the article]