ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,674, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Technologies for inferring a patient condition using machine learning" was invented by Timothy J. Receveur (Guilford, Ind.), Yongji Fu (Harrison, Ohio) and Aziz A. Bhai (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning compute device may include circuitry configured to obtain sensor data from a product associated with a patient. The circuitry may also be configured to obtain response variable data indicative of an actual condition of the patient associated with the sensor data. Additionally, the circuitry may be configured to train, bas...