ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,822, issued on July 28, was assigned to Welch Allyn Inc. (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.).

"Alarm management for monitored physiological variables" was invented by WonKyung McSweeney (Manlius, N.Y.), Allen R. Hart (Maryville, Tenn.), Christopher L. Long (Chittenango, N.Y.), Rebecca Quilty-Koval (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) and Chris R. Roberts (Skaneateles, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring a patient determines a set of predicted physiological variables using a model trained from physiological variables collected from the patient. The device receives a set of measured physiological variables and a motion measurement. The ...