US Patent Issued to Micrel Medical Devices on June 23 for "Closed loop pain management infusion" (Greek Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,065, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micrel Medical Devices S.A. (Koropi, Greece).

"Closed loop pain management infusion" was invented by Achilleas Tsoukalis (Papagou, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to an apparatus for controlling a drug infusion pump. The drug is preferably a pain medication. The apparatus controls the infusion pump to apply an infusion protocol, wherein an infusion protocol defines times and amounts of drug infusion. A providing unit provides monitoring data of a patient during the application of an infusion protocol, wherein the monitoring data is indicative of an effect of the infus...