ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,180, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Patient care system with unauthorized use detection" was invented by Alexander Josef Bodurka (Portage, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to detect an unauthorized device coupled to an interface of a control system for a patient support apparatus. The interface may be wired or wireless, and the system and method may involve determining an operating signature of a device coupled to an interface. Based on the operating signature being consistent with a device signature stored in memory, the system may determine the device coupled to the inter...