US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 23 for "Nociception event identification based on a relative change in a nociception parameter" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,061, issued on June 23, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Nociception event identification based on a relative change in a nociception parameter" was invented by Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Dean Montgomery (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a patient monitoring system includes processing circuitry configured to detect an occurrence of a nociception event of a patient during a medical procedure. The processing circuitry may, for example, determine, based at least in part on a nociception parameter of the patient in an interrogation window, a nociception paramete...