US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 14 for "System for associating device data" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,045, issued on July 14, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"System for associating device data" was invented by Thomas Deeds (Seattle), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Madhu Thomas (London, Canada), Celso Henrique Farnese Pires Pereira (Portage, Mich.), Jerald A. Trepanier (Augusta, Mich.), Kirby M. Neihouser (Portage, Mich.) and Madhu Sandeep Thota (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus for supporting a patient includes a plurality of pseudo-anchors that are used to determine relative position estimates with respect to an anchor affixed at a known location to a wall of...