ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,919, issued on June 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Monitoring system" was invented by Kai Kin Chan (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first aspect provides a receiver unit for a monitor system having a first wireless transceiver for communicating with a monitor unit with a first processor, and a second processor at for processing monitoring data. The second processor has a sleep mode to reduce power consumption, and the first processor wakes the second processor from the sleep mode in response to dialogue between the first processor and the monitor unit. The first aspect also provides...