US Patent Issued to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, for itself and on behalf of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, The Trustees of Dartmouth College on Aug. 11 for "System and method to measure pain levels of patients following surgery" (New Hampshire, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,353, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, for itself and on behalf of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic (Lebanon, N.H.) and The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"System and method to measure pain levels of patients following surgery" was invented by Sohail K. Mirza (Fairfax, Va.) and John B. Weaver (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a non-invasive system for measuring pain level in a body at a site containing a predetermined concentration of magnetic nanoparticles. A drive coil and a pickup coil transmit and measure a field passing through the site based upon r...