US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 14 for "Medical device, system and method for interaction with a supply facility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,170, issued on April 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Medical device, system and method for interaction with a supply facility" was invented by Soren Grubel (Erlangen, Germany), Thorsten Speckner (Erlangen, Germany) and Ulrich Nerreter (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device, a system including a medical device and a supply facility, and a method for operating the system are provided. For a planned activity, the medical device at least temporarily needs a resource from the supply facility. The medical device has a device control system and an interface for communication w...