IP Library Granted Patent US 12,318,208
Granted Patent B2
US 12,318,208 · App. 17/357,701 · Granted Jun 3, 2025

Two-lead QT interval prediction

Inventor: Matthew Schram (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: ALIVECOR, INC.
A61B5/36A61B5/0006A61B5/271A61B2560/02
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Patent No.
US 12,318,208
App. No.
17/357,701
Granted
Jun 3, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor comprising an electrode assembly comprising electrodes, wherein the electrode assembly senses heart-related signals when in contact with a body of a user, and produces electrical signals representing the sensed heart-related signals. The ECG sensor further comprises a processing device, operatively coupled to the electrode assembly, the processing device to provide the sensed heart-related signals to a machine learning module trained to predict a twelve-lead QT interval (QTc) value from the mobile ECG sensor comprising less than twelve leads. The ECG sensor also comprises a housing containing the electrode assembly and the processing device.

Claims (55)

1. A mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor comprising:

an electrode assembly comprising electrodes, wherein the electrode assembly is configured to sense heart-related signals when in contact with a body of a user, and produce electrical signals representing the sensed heart-related signals;

a processing device, operatively coupled to the electrode assembly, the processing device to:

provide a training data set comprising a plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements and a corresponding QT interval label for each of the plurality of ECG measurements;

train a machine learning (ML) model by:

analyzing, using the ML model, each of the plurality of ECG measurements to generate an output;

comparing each of the plurality of outputs to a corresponding QT interval label to generate an error that is based on a cross entropy term of the output and the corresponding QT interval label; and

updating the ML model based on the error generated for each of the plurality of outputs;

analyze the sensed heart-related signals using the machine learning model to predict a twelve-lead QT interval (QTc) value based on the sensed heart-related signals, wherein the sensed heart-related signals comprise less than twelve leads; and

analyze, using the machine learning model, the predicted QTc value to determine whether a health anomaly is present; and

a housing containing the electrode assembly and the processing device.

2. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements comprise twelve-lead ECG measurements from a plurality of users and the ML model is trained to predict the twelve-lead QTc value for a single user.

3. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements comprise twelve-lead ECG measurements from a single user and the ML model is trained to predict the twelve-lead QTc value for the single user.

4. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the ML model is a deep neural network machine learning module.

5. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the sensed heart-related signals comprise Lead I and Lead II signals.

6. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the health anomaly is determined to be present when QTc prolongation is detected.

7. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further configured to send a notification to a client device in response to the health anomaly being present.

8. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 6 , wherein QTc prolongation corresponds to an increase in QTc that is above a threshold amount and within a threshold amount of time.

9. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the processing device determines that the health anomaly is present when QTc prolongation is detected from the predicted QTc value.

10. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further to send a notification to a client device in response to determining that the health anomaly is present.

11. A mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) system comprising:

an electrode assembly comprising electrodes, wherein the electrode assembly is configured to sense heart-related signals when in contact with a body of a user, and produce electrical signals representing the sensed heart-related signals;

a processing device, operatively coupled to the electrode assembly, the processing device to:

provide a training data set comprising a plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements and a corresponding QT interval label for each of the plurality of ECG measurements;

train a machine learning (ML) model by:

analyzing, using the ML model, each of the plurality of ECG measurements to generate an output;

comparing each of the plurality of outputs to a corresponding QT interval label to generate an error that is based on a cross entropy term of the output and the corresponding QT interval label; and

updating the ML model based on the error generated for each of the plurality of outputs;

analyze the sensed heart-related signals using the ML model to predict a twelve-lead QT interval (QTc) value based on the sensed heart-related signals, wherein the sensed heart-related signals comprise less than twelve leads; and

analyze, using the ML model, the predicted QTc value to determine whether a health anomaly is present;

a display operably connected to the processing device; and

a memory comprising instructions to cause the processing device to process the sensed heart-related signals and display the heart-related signals and the predicted QTc value on the display.

12. The mobile ECG system of claim 11 , wherein the ML model is trained on twelve-lead QTc interval data from a plurality of users to predict the twelve-lead QTc value for a single user.

13. The mobile ECG system of claim 11 , wherein the ML model is trained on twelve-lead QTc interval data from a single user to predict the twelve-lead QTc value for the single user.

14. The mobile ECG system of claim 11 , wherein the ML model is a deep neural network machine learning module.

15. The mobile ECG system of claim 11 , wherein the sensed heart-related signals comprise Lead I and Lead II signals.

16. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 11 , wherein the health anomaly is determined to be present when QTc prolongation is detected.

17. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 11 , wherein the processing device is further configured to send a notification to a client device in response to the health anomaly being present.

18. The mobile ECG system of claim 16 , wherein QTc prolongation corresponds to an increase in QTc that is above a threshold amount and within a threshold amount of time.

19. The mobile ECG system of claim 11 , wherein the processing device determines that the health anomaly is present when QTc prolongation is detected from the predicted QTc value.

20. The mobile ECG sensor of claim 11 , wherein the processing device is further to send a notification to a client device in response to determining that the health anomaly is present.

21. A method, comprising:

providing a training data set comprising a plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements and a corresponding QT interval label for each of the plurality of ECG measurements;

training a machine learning (ML) model by:

analyzing, using the ML model, each of the plurality of ECG measurements to generate an output;

comparing each of the plurality of outputs to a corresponding QT interval label to generate an error that is based on a cross entropy term of the output and the corresponding QT interval label; and

updating the ML model based on the error generated for each of the plurality of outputs;

receiving, from an electrode assembly comprising electrodes, heart-related signals sensed by the electrode assembly from a body of a user;

generating electrical signals representing the sensed heart-related signals;

analyzing, by a processing device, the heart-related signals using the ML model to predict a twelve-lead QT interval (QTc) value based on the sensed heart-related signals, wherein the sensed heart-related signals comprise less than twelve leads; and

analyzing, by the processing device, the predicted QTc value using the ML model to determine whether a health anomaly is present.

22. The method of claim 21 , wherein the plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements comprise twelve-lead ECG measurements from a plurality of users to predict the twelve-lead QTc value for a single user.

23. The method of claim 21 , further comprising determining the health anomaly to be present when QTc prolongation is detected from the predicted QTc value.

24. The method of claim 21 , further comprising sending a notification to a client device in response to the health anomaly being present.

25. The method of claim 23 , wherein QTc prolongation corresponds to an increase in QTc that is above a threshold amount and within a threshold amount of time.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 24, 2026
From: ALIVECOR, INC.
To: SYMBIOTIC CAPITAL AGENCY LLC, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AND COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 075813/0343 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 28, 2021
From: SCHRAM, MATTHEW
To: ALIVECOR, INC.
Reel/Frame 056693/0461 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63044882 · Jun 26, 2020
Related Publication 20210401349A1 · Dec 30, 2021
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