ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,981, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dragerwerk AG & Co. KGaA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Method and computer-readable recording medium for using a self-describing module for updating data in a medical monitoring device" was invented by Michael D. Hirst (Webster, Mass.), Joshua Abell (Beverly, Mass.), Geoffrey Waite (Topsfield, Mass.), Stefan Schlichting (Lubeck, Germany), Alexander Loose (Reinfeld, Germany) and Hannes Molsen (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer-readable recording media using a self-describing module for updating data in a medical monitoring device. The self-describing module includes a ...