ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,483, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for identifying blood pressure zones during autoregulation monitoring" was invented by Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Dean Montgomery (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitor configured to monitor autoregulation includes a memory encoding one or more processor-executable routines and a processor configured to access and execute the one or more routines encoded by the memory. When executed, the routines cause the processor to receive one or more physiological signals from a patient, determine a measure i...