Patent Document ID: 20090299212
Application ID: 12475911
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A uterine contractile monitoring system comprising: a) a plurality of surface sensors to receive and communicate myometrium signals; b) a data storage device for collecting information communicated by the sensors; and c) a computing means comprising hardware and software, wherein said software comprises an EHG extraction function to extract multiple channels of EHG signals based on information communicated by the plurality of sensors and a function for utilizing and analyzing the multiple EHG signals to extract any single one or combination of the following parameters: time of contraction, location of contraction, extent of contraction, direction of propagation, speed of propagation over the abdomen, average contraction over time, spatial location of the peak of contraction and its variance, spread of the contraction, abdominal intensity distribution, abdominal frequency distribution, patterns of contraction intensity over time, distance of peak power propagation, power changes over time, and frequency changes over time, wherein the computing means further comprises a means for utilizing any one or combination of the parameters to ascertain any single one or combination of the following data: uterine tonus, fundal dominance, and spatio-temporal patterns of uterine contractions.