ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,224, issued on July 28, was assigned to Nextern Innovation LLC (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

"Dynamically controlled treatment protocols for autonomous treatment systems" was invented by Ryan J. Douglas (Seattle) and Steven M. Gigl (Crystal, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, and methods relate to a medical device receiving a treatment parameter operating point within a first operating region defined by a first set of operating points for which automatic incremental adjustment of a parameter in the current operation is permitted. In an illustrative example, incremental adjustment may use artificial intelligence based on patien...