US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on July 14 for "Patient monitoring patch" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,100, issued on July 14, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Patient monitoring patch" was invented by Nicholas Martin Wyckoff (Huntsville, Ala.), John D. Williams (Decatur, Ala.) and Michael Francis Mitchell (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring a patient includes a substrate, an adhesive layer coupled to a first side of the substrate, and a circuit board coupled to a second side of the substrate. The adhesive layer is configured to adhere to a patient. The device also includes a plurality of switches coupled to the circuit board. Each switch is associated with a respective condition ...