ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,372, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Post-service state validator for medical devices" was invented by Robert Paul Koster (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Sauvik Bhattacharya (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable medium (107, 127) stores instructions readable and executable by at least one electronic processor (101, 113) to provide an operating mode for a medical device (120) to provide medical diagnostic and/or medical treatment functionality; instructions readable and executable...