US Patent Issued to Welch Allyn on Sept. 22 for "Authentication of medical devices" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,776, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Welch Allyn Inc. (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.).

"Authentication of medical devices" was invented by David D. Gamble (East Syracuse, N.Y.), Douglas Fenster (Onondaga Hill, N.Y.) and Adam Webster (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for authenticating a medical device is described. The system receives a request from a medical device to access operations or data of an external service provider. The system determines whether the request received from the medical device is valid. When the request is valid, the system generates a token that is customized based on the external ser...