US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Sept. 23 for "Methods and system for anesthetic vaporizer drop detection" (North Carolina, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,051, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and system for anesthetic vaporizer drop detection" was invented by Charles Andrew (Greensboro, N.C.), Sandeep Punjalkatte Baliga (McFarland, Wis.), Karl N Knauf (Madison, Wis.) and Russell J Kuzelka (McFarland, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting unacceptable accelerations by an anesthetic vaporizer, such as due to drops and mishandling. In one embodiment, a method for an anesthetic vaporizer comprises determining a quantitative acceleration of the anesthetic vaporizer based on acceleration ...