ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,479, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NeuroWave Systems Inc. (Cleveland).
"Field deployable sedation system and method" was invented by Stephane Bibian (Orange, Ohio), Tatjana Zikov (Orange, Ohio) and Sankar Barua (Stow, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provides closed-loop sedation, anesthesia, or analgesia by monitoring EEG and automatically adjusting the delivery of sedative, anesthetic, and/or analgesic drugs to maintain that desired level of cortical activity for transportation or evacuation of the injured, and for closed-loop anesthesia during surgical care, and at all echelons of care."
The patent was f...