ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,917, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for determining an indicator representative for a fluid responsiveness parameter" was invented by Thomas Poleschner (Boblingen, Germany), Benjamin Stolze (Taufkirchen, Germany), Stephan Guido Maria Regh (Boeblingen, Germany) and Manuela Braun (Boeblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus for determining an indicator that is representative of a fluid responsiveness parameter. The indicator is determined based on a fitting of a functional prototype to data values (s0) determined from pulse ...