US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 21 for "System for determining patient support apparatus and medical device location" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,460, issued on July 21, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a patient support apparatus and a plurality of location transceivers. One of more of the location transceivers are positioned onboard the patient support...