US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on April 7 for "Technologies for medical device usage tracking and analysis" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,510, issued on April 7, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Technologies for medical device usage tracking and analysis" was invented by Timothy W. Rodts (Westerville, Ohio), Julio Guerrero (Cambridge, Mass.) and Stephen A. Kramer (Buzzards Bay, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for medical device usage monitoring includes one or more capture devices, one or more base station devices, and an analytics server. The capture devices each capture image data indicative of a monitored location at a timestamp in an operating room and transmit the image data to a base station device. Each base station de...