ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,895, issued on May 26, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for monitoring intracranial compliance" was invented by Robert Clark (Pittsburgh), Gilles Clermont (Fombell, Pa.) and Michael Wolf (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for monitoring intracranial compliance in a patient includes an intracranial pressure sensor, configured to obtain a measurement indicative of an intracranial pressure of a patient, a CO2 sensor, configured to obtain a measurement indicative of a CO2 level of the patient, and a processor, configured to deter...