US Patent Issued to QUMEA on June 30 for "Method for monitoring a recumbent patient to obtain information on a body position of the patient" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,281, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUMEA AG (Solothurn, Switzerland).

"Method for monitoring a recumbent patient to obtain information on a body position of the patient" was invented by Cyrill Gyger (Solothurn, Switzerland), Jonas Reber (Grafenried, Switzerland) and Philipp Rebsamen (Kerzers, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a recumbent patient to obtain information on a body position of the patient comprises the steps of emitting electromagnetic waves by a sender (11) arranged in a distance from the patient, receiving electromagnetic waves reflected by the patient by a receiver (12, 13, 14) arr...