ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,769, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Health Care Systems Inc. (Montgomery, Ala.).

"Patient monitoring system" was invented by William Dwight Henderson (Montgomery, Ala.) and Reubin Benjamin Felkey (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring system helps staff personnel, clinicians and physicians who are making their rounds of patients quickly and accurately enter their reports of patient observations. The patient monitoring system has a monitoring device carried by the staff personnel as they make their rounds which wirelessly communicates with a central server. The monitoring device is populated with patient...