ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,098, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to US Patient Care Products LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Patient monitoring system" was invented by Jonathan Douglas Torkelson (Tulsa, Okla.) and James Patrick Lovely (Tulsa, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensitive pad has at least one internal electrical contact indicating presence of a patient on the pad when the electrical contact is closed. An internal control circuit electrically connected to the at least one contact to detect closure of the contact and an internal wireless transceiver is used by the control circuit to broadcast a signal indicating presence and absence of the patien...