US Patent Issued to WR Medical Electronics on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus and method for using a portable thermal device to quantify pain perception" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,077, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to WR Medical Electronics Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Apparatus and method for using a portable thermal device to quantify pain perception" was invented by Kyle A. Maloney (Stillwater, Minn.), E. Paul Maloney (Stillwater, Minn.) and Christian M. Darling (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable heat stimulation device that can generate a heat stimulus and deliver the heat stimulus to a patient in a manner that may be useful in quantifying the patient's perception of pain."

The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/886,653.

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