US Patent Issued to Auris Health on June 23 for "Bed occupancy detection using geometric features from point clouds" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,783, issued on June 23, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Bed occupancy detection using geometric features from point clouds" was invented by Ashwath Narayan Murali (Munich), Yiming Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Juri Platonov (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and techniques for detecting hospital bed occupancy based on three-dimensional (3D) point clouds of the hospital bed extracted from depth images. In one aspect, a process for determining if a bed inside an operating room (OR) is occupied by a patient is disclosed. This process begins by receiving a 3D point c...