US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 5 for "Systems and methods for managing medical device network communication" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,179, issued on May 5, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for managing medical device network communication" was invented by Neel Mistry (Haslet, Texas), Eric Alexander Hereford (North Richland Hills, Texas) and Brandon B. Hunter (Hollister, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a medical device for transmitting and/or receiving a data stream through a medical network, the method comprising transmitting and/or receiving the data stream over the medical network by a network interface using a multicast address stored in a memory of the medical device. Upon powering up the medical d...