US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on Sept. 30 for "Image-based pairing and controlling of devices in a clinical environment" (New York, Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,071, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Image-based pairing and controlling of devices in a clinical environment" was invented by Gene J. Wolfe (Pittsford, N.Y.), Susan A. Kayser (Batesville, Ind.), Olivia Gubitose Boyce (Cincinnati) and David L. Ribble (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes capturing images using a camera and detecting a medical device in a first image among the images. A request is transmitted to the medical device. Based on transmitting the request, the example method includes determining that the medical device has output a chirp signa...