ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,261, issued on March 11, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).
"System, method, and apparatus for electronic patient care" was invented by John J. Biasi (Lancaster, Mass.), Eric L. Pribyl (Manchester, N.H.) and David Blumberg Jr. (Deerfield, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for electronic patient care includes a gateway and a medical device. The gateway is configured to provide at least one of a routing functionality, a medical device software update, and a web service. The medical device is configured to operatively communicate with the gateway using the web service."
The patent was filed on April 1, 202...