US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on April 1 for "Patient warming system with monitoring and feedback capability" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,117, issued on April 1, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Patient warming system with monitoring and feedback capability" was invented by Daniel P. Doran (Minneapolis), Jia Hu (Mounds View, Minn.), Vinod P. Menon (Woodbury, Minn.), Greg E. Schrank (Bloomington, Minn.), Winston T. Tan (Plymouth, Minn.) and Trung Vu (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a patient warming system having a heating device configured to transfer heat to a patient based on a body heat score that indicates whether the patient is likely to sweat. The heating device inc...