US Patent Issued to LEAF HEALTHCARE on Sept. 1 for "Display of monitored patient position information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,566, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LEAF HEALTHCARE INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Display of monitored patient position information" was invented by Barrett J. Larson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mark V. Weckwerth (Pleasanton, Calif.), Daniel Z. Shen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Charles Matthew Peterson Hammond (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring medical conditions including pressure ulcers, pressure-induced ischemia and related medical conditions comprises at least one sensor adapted to detect one or more patient characteristic including at least position, orientation, temperature, acceleration, moistu...