ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,639, issued on May 27.

"Methods and apparatus for reducing the risk, and identifying the existence, of neurological injury to a human fetus during and before labor" was invented by Mark Evans (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for reducing the risk of neurological injury to a human fetus during labor and before are disclosed, which include the steps of: (1) identifying during labor the risk of neurological injury to a fetus by, conducting an analysis of fetal blood to determine at least a first base excess (BE) value for the fetus; (2) determining a multiple of the median for the BE value at the first per...