US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center, COSMED on May 6 for "Oxygen consumption and energy expenditure monitoring" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,350, issued on May 6, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston) and COSMED S.r.l. (Rome).

"Oxygen consumption and energy expenditure monitoring" was invented by Peter Clemensen (Odense, Denmark), John Kheir (Charlestown, Mass.), Brian Polizzotti (Swampscott, Mass.) and Arne Bo Thomsen (Tommerup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient ventilation system and a computing device-implemented method determine oxygen consumption in a mechanically ventilated subject includes receiving a signal representing a total flow at an inspiratory outlet of a ventilator, calculating a transport delay time between inspiratory an...