US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on July 14 for "Wireless bed locating system" (Indiana, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,020, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Wireless bed locating system" was invented by Craig A. McNeely (Columbus, Ind.), Carl W. Riley (Milan, Ind.), Keith A. Huster (Sunman, Ind.), Irvin J. Vanderpohl (Greensburg, Ind.), Patricia A. Glidewell (Cary, N.C.), David C. Ferguson (Wake Forest, N.C.), Simeon Zhao (Apex, N.C.) and Daleep Bhatia (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, beds, supports surfaces and machine readable medium for associating beds and support surface of a healthcare facility are disclosed. A surface association system for a healthcare facility may comp...