US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 15 for "System for managing patient support apparatuses and clinical rounds" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,373, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"System for managing patient support apparatuses and clinical rounds" 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 for assisting a caregiver in a healthcare facility to perform his or her rounding duties comprises a server in communication with one or more patient beds and one or more electronic devices (e.g. smart phones) that are remote from the beds and that include a display, a user input, and a web browser. The server executes a caregiver assistan...