US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on March 11 for "Prediction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,427, issued on March 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Prediction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)" was invented by Ali Akbar Ahmad Samadani (Cambridge, Mass.), Taiyao Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Cornelis van Zon (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 pneumonia (VAP). In an example, data of a patient including one or more features useful in predicting VAPs are accessed and the features are extracted. A model is activated based on a time parameter associated with mechanical ventilation or leng...