US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on July 8 for "System and method for locating equipment in a healthcare facility" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,736, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"System and method for locating equipment in a healthcare facility" was invented by Ryan Hochworter (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment locating system includes a plurality of medical apparatuses required for patient treatment and having equipment tags. A real-time locating system is configured to determine a location of each of the plurality of medical apparatuses by receiving a signal from the equipment tags. The caregiver selects a medical apparatus from an apparatus list when the medical apparatus is acquired so that the medi...