US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on April 22 for "Wireless configuration and authorization of a wall unit that pairs with a medical device" (North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,999, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Wireless configuration and authorization of a wall unit that pairs with a medical device" was invented by Jason M. Williams (Cary, N.C.), Vijay Aditya Tadipatri (Madeira, Ohio), Steven V. McCaig (Greensburg, Ind.) and John V. Harmeyer (Cleves, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-based wireless pairing operation between a medical device, such as a patient bed, and a wall module in a patient room is initiated in response to a power plug of the medical device being plugged into a power receptacle carried by the wall module. Times determined by tim...