US Patent Issued to Stryker on Dec. 16 for "Patient video monitoring system" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,991, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient video monitoring system" was invented by Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Jeremy L. Dunn (Portage, Mich.), Lavanya Vytla (McKinney, Texas), Nikhil Mishra (Portage, Mich.), Faisal Mahmood (Portage, Mich.), Ross Michael Nave (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Jerald A. Trepanier (Augusta, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a patient and/or patient support apparatus includes one or more cameras that capture images and depth data. A computer processes the image signals and depth data and performs one or more of the following func...