ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,357, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Age-compensated driving of light-emitting diodes of a lighting strip of a medical device" was invented by Andreas Troeltzsch (Heroldsbach, Germany), Harald Karl (Fuerth, Germany) and Arne Harriers (Uttenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a lighting strip having a plurality of individually drivable light-emitting diodes, and a controller for the light-emitting diodes. The controller includes an interface configured to dynamically receive a request for an illumination state including a partial illumination state f...