ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,988, issued on March 17, was assigned to ALPHATEC SPINE INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"System, method, and computer algorithm for characterization and classification of electrophysiological evoked potentials" was invented by Dan Stashuk (Stamford, Conn.) and Richard A. O'Brien (Hunt Valley, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated EP analysis apparatus for monitoring, detecting and identifying changes (adverse or recovering) to a physiological system generating the analyzed EPs, wherein the apparatus is adapted to characterize and classify EPs and create alerts of changes (adverse or recovering) to the physiological systems genera...