US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for localized monitoring of patients" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,904, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for localized monitoring of patients" was invented by Dean Montgomery (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring system may include a camera acquiring image data of an environment, a wearable device coupled to a patient and generating sensor data of physiological parameters of the patient, and a computing system communicatively coupled to the camera and the wearable device. The computing system may receive the image data from the camera, receive sensor data indica...