US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 30 for "Systems and apparatuses for promoting communication integrity between patient support apparatuses and a nurse call system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,782, issued on June 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and apparatuses for promoting communication integrity between patient support apparatuses and a nurse call system" was invented by Jerald A. Trepanier (Augusta, Mich.), Alexander Josef Bodurka (Portage, Mich.), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Vinod Prakash Bhatt (Haryana, India) and Ashutosh Mishra (State Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system for exchanging messages between a patient support apparatus and a headwall unit includes intelligence built into either or both of these devices (and/or ...