ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,576, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Recovery Force LLC (Fishers, Ind.).

"Patient compliance monitoring system" was invented by Kevin A. Mauser (Indianapolis), Jeffrey Schwegman (Indianapolis), Jason M. Bobay (Fishers, Ind.), Vincent Rizzo (Westfield, Ind.) and Matthew Wyatt (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient compliance monitoring system is provided for monitoring patient compliance in the use of a plurality of patient care and recovery devices in the hospital room. Sensors are associated with each of the devices to detect a usage history of the associated device and to generate usage data therefore. One devic...