ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,904, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hillrom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring subjects" was invented by Christopher Nelson (Batesville, Ind.) and Dan R. Tallent (Batesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are vision systems. The vision systems may be integrated into person support apparatuses, or may be integrated into mobile carts such that the vision systems are movable relative to the person support apparatus. The vision system includes at least one camera positioned such that a field of view of the at least one camera contains the person support apparatus and the subject...