US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital on Oct. 27 for "Methods of fluid assessment and treatment" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,111, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Methods of fluid assessment and treatment" was invented by Michael J. Cima (Winchester, Mass.), Matthew Li (Somerville, Mass.), Lina Colucci (Austin, Texas), Herbert Lin (Boston) and Kristin Corapi (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of fluid assessment and treatment, which may include measuring a quantitative relaxation time (T2) of a muscle of a patient to determine whether the patient is hypovolemic, euvolemic, or hypervolemic. Methods of treatment may include determining a fir...