ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,238, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Determining a risk or occurrence of health event responsive to determination of patient parameters" was invented by John E. Burnes (Blaine, Minn.), Mirko de Melis (Maastricht, Netherlands) and Stacy D. Beske Radford (Maple Plain, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and techniques for monitoring a patient condition. In some examples, a medical device system includes a medical device comprising a set of sensors. Additionally, the medical device system includes processing circuitry configured to identify, based on at ...