ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,882, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for providing open access point indicators in an infant care station" was invented by Karen P. Becker (Phoenix, Md.), Rajendra Naik (Bangalore, India) and Thomas L. Valent (Burlington, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infant care station can include a lighting system, at least one access point, and a processor that can detect that the at least one access point is open. The processor can also provide, using the lighting system, a first color light in response to the detecting that the at least one access point is open, and p...