US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on May 12 for "Method and system for monitoring depth of muscle relaxation of a patient" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,603, issued on May 12, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Method and system for monitoring depth of muscle relaxation of a patient" was invented by Mika Olli Kristian Sarkela (Helsinki) and Mari Johanna Partio (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring depth of muscle relaxation of a patient includes applying a series of stimulations to a nerve of a patient and measuring muscle responses thereto. A maximal stimulus current, a supramaximal stimulus current, and/or a submaximal stimulus current are determined based on the muscle responses, wherein the maximal stimulus current is a c...