ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,733, issued on April 14, was assigned to Telesair Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Weaning method and related products" was invented by Andrew Hull (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Qing Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yong Liu (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting a patient in weaning from a therapy, the method being executed by a controller, and the controller being configurable with different at least one weaning strategy. The method includes setting, based on at least one input by a user, a target weaning strategy among the at least one weaning strategy, where the at least one input corresponds to a clinical decision ...