ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,057, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).
"Automatically identifying pressure injuries" was invented by Susan A. Kayser (Batesville, Ind.), Eugene G. Urrutia (Apex, N.C.), Karrie Ann Schwencer (Cary, N.C.) and Sinan Batman (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems, devices, and methods for predicting and identifying root causes of pressure injuries in a clinical environment are described. An example method includes identifying, based on an electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient, that the patient has an injury; receiving, from one or more sensors, sensor data indicating o...