ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,754, issued on May 13, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Desaturation severity prediction and alarm management" was invented by Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Philip Smit (Hamilton, Great Britain), Andre Antunes (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Dean Montgomery (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein disclose a method of classifying oxygen level desaturation events. In one implementation, the method includes receiving input signal sequences, the input signals indicative of a physiological condition of a patient, generating an input sequence of oxygen saturatio...