ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,170, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Providing a visual representation of patient monitoring data" was invented by Harald Greiner (Nufringen, Germany) and Frank Enslin (Deckenpfronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitor and a separate user interface for the patient monitor, adapted to communicate with one another over a communication pathway. Both the patient monitor and the separate user interface are able to independently check the status of the communication pathway, and visually indicate this status."

The patent was filed on Sept. 22, 2020, under Applicat...