Appeal No. 1998-0061
Application No. 08/364,101
peaks in the energy spectrum as heart and respiration rates.
The apparatus defined in claim 11 comprises the piezoelectric
pad for producing the voltage signal from the patient’s
acoustic and electromechanical transmissions, the processor
for calculating the energy spectrum from the pad’s voltage
signal and a comparator for “comparing peaks in the energy
spectrum and characterizing the peaks as heart and respiration
rates.”
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to
appellant’s brief.
The following references are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness in support of his
rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
Salem et al. 4,889,131 Dec. 26, 1989
(Salem)
Nedivi 5,002,060 Mar. 26, 1991
Fraden (UK) 2 138 144 Oct. 17, 1984
Claims 1 through 8, 10 through 18 and 20 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Fraden in
view of Nedivi, and claims 9 and 19 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
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