US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 11 for "Patient care systems with dynamic gateways" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,584, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient care systems with dynamic gateways" was invented by Marco Constant (Portage, Mich.), Madhu Sandeep Thota (Portage, Mich.), Bhavin Kapadia (Portage, Mich.), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Thomas Joseph Durlach (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Frank J. Lee (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device, such as a patient support apparatus or a thermal control unit, includes a plurality of mechanical components and a plurality of nodes adapted to communicate with each other over a local network onboard the medical device, and a gat...