ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,948, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SafeOp Surgical Inc. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Medical systems and methods for detecting changes in electrophysiological evoked potentials" was invented by Gregg Johns (Toronto), Richard Arthur O'Brien (Hunt Valley, Md.) and Robert Snow (Phoenix, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated evoked potential analysis apparatus for improved monitoring, detecting and identifying changes to a patient's physiological system, wherein the apparatus includes an input device for obtaining electrical potential data from the patient's physiological system after application of stimulation to a patient's ne...