US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 23 for "Caregiver assistance system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,077, issued on June 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Caregiver assistance system" was invented by Thomas Joseph Durlach (Portage, Mich.) and Ross Michael Nave (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A caregiver assistance system helps caregivers manage the care of patients and the beds that support the patients. The system monitors tasks associated with the patients, such as caregiver rounding tasks, bed sore assessments, and/or fall risk assessments, and forwards completed tasks to an EMR server. The system also monitors the state of the beds and determines compliance with one or more healthcare facility...