US Patent Issued to DRAGERWERK on April 15 for "Communication bus" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,528, issued on April 15, was assigned to DRAGERWERK AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Communication bus" was invented by Michael D. Hirst (Webster, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described herein for a communication bus that virtualizes physiological data. Sensors and/or physiological data acquisition devices have different physical connectors which provide physiological data from a patient to a shared interface such as a display or patient monitor. A transfer interface within a mount can receive and interpret data streams associated with one or more physiological data acquisition devices. T...