US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on April 22 for "Video used to estimate vital signs" (Ohio, New York, Connecticut, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,857, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Video used to estimate vital signs" was invented by Gene J. Wolfe (Pittsford, N.Y.), Eric Dustin Agdeppa (Cary, N.C.), Tyler Holmes (Monroe, Conn.) and Ibne Soreefan (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring patient vital signs is performed by analyzing videos recorded of a patient. An algorithm is used to compute the real-time patient vital signs based on video images of the patient. These images can be captured by a video monitoring device positioned over a patient's bed. The video monitoring device can include a thermal camera a...