US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on March 3 for "Automated mobility assessment" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,504, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Automated mobility assessment" was invented by Timothy Receveur (Apex, N.C.) and Eugene Urrutia (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically evaluating a level of mobility of a patient using a machine-learning model and load sensors integrated into a patient support system. A machine-learning model implemented on a computing system analyzes the load sensor data to determine whether the patient has difficulty standing up. This automated analysis can replace existing mobility assessments that were previously performed by caregivers. The mobi...