US Patent Issued to Carestream Health on June 3 for "Remote and automated intensive care unit" (New York, Washington, Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,237, issued on June 3, was assigned to Carestream Health Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Remote and automated intensive care unit" was invented by Dharmendu Damany (Woodinville, Wash.), Xiaohui Wang (Pittsford, N.Y.), William J. Sehnert (Fairport, N.Y.), John Yorkston (Arlington, Va.), David H. Foos (Webster, N.Y.) and Eliot L. Siegel (Severna Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiographic imaging system may be deployed in an ICU unit of a medical facility that may benefit from isolating patients and health care providers. The radiography system provides a plurality of patient beds each having a digital radiographic detector positio...