US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 12 for "Autoregulation status monitoring" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,651, issued on May 12, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Autoregulation status monitoring" was invented by Dean Montgomery (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Andre Antunes (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry may receive one or more signals of a patient. The processing circuitry may determine an autoregulation status of the patient based at least in part on the one or more signals. The processing circuitry may output, for display at an output device, a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes an indication of the autoregulation status o...