US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 7 for "Therapy scoring for hemodynamic conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,822, issued on July 7, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Therapy scoring for hemodynamic conditions" was invented by Rachel June Smith (Irvine, Calif.), Zhongping Jian (Irvine, Calif.), Feras Al Hatib (Irvine, Calif.), Andrew Marino (Rowland Heights, Calif.) and Sai Prasad Buddi (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring arterial pressure of a patient determines a score that is predictive of responsiveness of the patient to a therapy. Sensed hemodynamic data representative of an arterial pressure waveform of the patient are received by a hemodynamic monitor. Magnitude dat...