ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,049, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).
"Patient monitoring system" was invented by Robert F. Karlicek Jr. (Mechanicville, N.Y.), Richard J. Radke (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Arunas Tuzikas (Troy, N.Y.) and Claire F. Karlicek (Mechanicville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a sensor module for patient monitoring. The sensor module includes a processor circuitry; a memory circuitry; at least one time of flight (TOF) sensor; a TOF logic; and a monitor logic. The TOF logic is configured to determine a sequence of elevation maps of at least a portion of a patient room. T...