US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 25 for "Patient support apparatus and medical device networks" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,941, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus and medical device networks" was invented by Alexander Josef Bodurka (Portage, Mich.) and Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically detecting medical devices positioned within a room of a healthcare facility includes a patient support apparatus, a headwall unit, and a controller. The patient support apparatus includes at least first and second transceivers and the headwall unit includes at least third and fourth transceivers. At least one of the first and second transceiver a...