US Patent Issued to Welch Allyn on July 21 for "Alarm monitoring and evaluation" (New York, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,493, issued on July 21, was assigned to Welch Allyn Inc. (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.).

"Alarm monitoring and evaluation" was invented by WonKyung McSweeney (Manlius, N.Y.), Allen R. Hart (Maryville, Tenn.), Alexandre Hernandez Froio (Syracuse, N.Y.), Christopher L Long (Chittenango, N.Y.) and Rebecca Quilty-Koval (Baldwinsville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring a patient displays a nuisance button on a display device, receives clinician feedback from a selection of the nuisance button, and pauses an active alarm in response to the clinician feedback. The device identifies one or more alarm settings responsible...