US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 27 for "Patient support apparatuses with headwall communication" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,128, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatuses with headwall communication" was invented by Alexander Josef Bodurka (Portage, Mich.), Jerald A. Trepanier (Augusta, Mich.), Thomas Deeds (Seattle), Madhu Sandeep Thota (Portage, Mich.) and Placide Nibakuze (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus includes a frame, support surface, first and second wireless transceivers, a room control, and a controller. The first transceiver communicates with a headwall module and the second transceiver communicates with a local area network. The room control contr...