US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on June 3 for "Prediction of ventilator-associated events (VAEs)" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,540, issued on June 3, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Prediction of ventilator-associated events (VAEs)" was invented by Ali Akbar Ahmad Samadani (Cambridge, Mass.), Ikaro Garcia Araujo Da Silva (Cambridge, Mass.), Francesco Vicario (Cambridge, Mass.), Cornelis Van Zon (Cambridge, Mass.) and Taiyao Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, devices and systems for predicting ventilator associated events (VAEs). In an example, data of a patient including one or more features useful in predicting VAEs is accessed and the features are extracted. The extracted f...