US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for retrieving part service history during servicing of a medical device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,371, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for retrieving part service history during servicing of a medical device" was invented by Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Johannes Henricus Maria Korst (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Mauro Barbieri (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device (120) includes a component (121); and a service tag (130) to be affixed to the component, the service tag having encoded data (134) disposed thereon about servicing of the component of the medical device. In some embodiments, the encoded da...