ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,255, issued on June 23, was assigned to Zoll Circulation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Determining a value indicative of a thermoregulatory activity of a patient using a temperature management system" was invented by George L. Walls (San Jose, Calif.), Richard A. Helkowski (Redwood City, Calif.), Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Byron Reynolds (San Jose, Calif.), Iljong Lee (Saratoga, Calif.), Michael W. Dae (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sean W. Yip (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature management system controls a temperature of a body of a patient and determines a value indicative of a thermoregula...