US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on Aug. 11 for "Pad designs to improve delivery of temperature therapy" (North Carolina, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,586, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Pad designs to improve delivery of temperature therapy" was invented by Eric A. Fallows (Apex, N.C.), Nicholas J. Jardine (Holly Springs, N.C.), Qihua Xu (Cary, N.C.), Adam T. Martin (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Sean E. Walker (Platteville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing targeted temperature management (TTM) therapy to a patient. The TTM system can include multiple embodiments of a thermal pad including embodiments that are convertible from a first patient contact area to a second patient contact ...