ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,413, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Pairable devices and systems and methods for providing assisted pairing of devices to particular locations" was invented by Jason M. Williams (Cary, N.C.) and Richard Schuman (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a medical device that scans for wireless broadcasts based upon received input or satisfying a scanning criterion. The medical device, based upon the scan, identifies data wirelessly broadcast from a control device. The medical device outputs information to the interface identifying the control device. The medi...