ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,050, issued on July 15, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for transferring medical data from medical devices to a remote server" was invented by Stephen Slezic (Vancouver, Canada), Yiu Lun Chu (Richmond, Canada), Jessie Ying Chi Ng (Vancouver, Canada) and Sandeep Kumar Thakur (Miramar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transferring medical data from a medical device to a remote server includes, at the medical device, tracking a transfer status of medical data stored on a local storage. The stored medical data includes first medical data having a first status and second medical data ha...