US Patent Issued to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND on March 24 for "Device and method for the authentication of a user of a medical device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,844, issued on March 24, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Device and method for the authentication of a user of a medical device" was invented by Stefan Konrad Marterstock (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Kevin Heiko Hartmann (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment system (100) for treating a patient comprises a medical device (10) and a portable authentication device (20), wherein the medical device (10) is adapted to output an acoustic signal when a wireless communication connection between the medical device (10) and the portable authentication device (20) is succ...