US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Nov. 11 for "Methods and systems for ventilation management using lung ultrasound" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,331, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for ventilation management using lung ultrasound" was invented by Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.), Seyedali Sadeghi (Melrose, Mass.), Shyam Bharat (Arlington, Mass.), Claudia Errico (Medford, Mass.), Samer Bou Jawde (Boston), Roberto Buizza (Malden, Mass.), Balasundar Iyyavu Raju (North Andover, Mass.) and Sven Peter Prevrhal (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lung injury monitoring system (200) configured to monitor a patient's lungs during ventilation, comprising: an ultrasound device (280) configured to ...