ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,700, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Equipment monitoring system" was invented by Stephen Michael Pitchers (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an equipment monitoring system. The equipment monitoring system receives first telemetry information from a medical device and determines, based on the first telemetry information, whether the device has a configuration error. If the device is determined to have a configured error, the system obtains second telemetry information from the device to confirm whether the device has a configuration error."

The ...