US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on March 18 for "Distributed healthcare communication system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,243, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Distributed healthcare communication system" was invented by Richard J. Schuman (Cary, N.C.), Patricia A. Glidewell (Cary, N.C.) and Erik E. Roehl (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphical audio station of a nurse call system is operable to permit a user to perform one or more of the following functions: establish a two-way voice communication link with another computer device in another patient and/or with a another computer device located in another staff work area and/or with a wireless communication device carried by caregiver and/o...