ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,027, issued on July 22, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH (Marburg, Germany).

"Method for automatically unblocking or blocking a computer-supported medical device" was invented by Christof Eichert (Koenigstein, Germany), Reza Golriz (Mainz, Germany) and Markus Preidel (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically blocking and/or unblocking a computer-supported medical device in a system includes the medical device and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises a first wireless communication device, and the medical device comprises a second wireless communication device. The medical ...