US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on Oct. 20 for "Mitigating violence in a clinical care environment" (Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,484, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Mitigating violence in a clinical care environment" was invented by Autumn S. Thompson (Philadelphia), Stacie L. Brough (Syracuse, N.Y.), Kathryn Piston (Syracuse, N.Y.), David E. Quinn (Moravia, N.Y.) and Daniel C. Shirley (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for mitigating violence in a clinical care environment. The system detects at least one individual who is exhibiting violent behavior. The system identifies a location of the at least one individual who is exhibiting the violent behavior based on data received from a location t...