US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on Sept. 30 for "Wound healing analysis and tracking" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,751, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Wound healing analysis and tracking" was invented by Susan A. Kayser (Batesville, Ind.), Jennifer Marie Rizzo (Guilford, Ind.), Mary L Pfeffer (Mount Pleasant, S.C.), Jie Zhou (Batesville, Ind.), Nuno M Azeredo (Chicago) and Marion Le Gall (Vannes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed towards a patient management system for analyzing images of wounds and tracking the progression of wounds over time. In some examples, a computing device of the patient management system receives an image, and determines that the image depi...