ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,595, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for acclimation to therapy" was invented by Benjamin Irwin Shelly (Pittsburgh) and Daan Anton Van Den Ende (Breda, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of acclimating a patient to a therapy and a system for carrying out such method. The method includes providing the patient with an initial step of a therapy set up program for the patient to perform and determining at least one step metric. The at least one step metric determined is: a stress level of the patient while performing the initial step, successful com...