ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,832, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Autonomous drug delivery system" was invented by Jerome J. Novak Jr. (Lake Forest, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous drug delivery system advantageously utilizes physiological monitor outputs so as to automatically give a bolus of a rescue drug or other necessary medication when certain criteria and confidence levels are met. An emergency button is provided to manually trigger administration of the rescue drug. The rescue drug may be an opioid antagonist in response to an analgesia overdose, a hypotensive drug to avert an excessive drop in blood...