ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,672, issued on June 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Patient monitoring system" was invented by Siegfried Mailaender (Dusslingen, Germany), Sujit Ranjan Mishra (Darmsheim/ Sindelfingen, Germany) and Fabian Trogele (Boeblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring system has a patient monitor and a patient sensor connected to the patient monitor by a measurement cable. An electrical connector between the end of the measurement cable and the patient monitor has a male part with a shroud around a set of pins and a female part with a recess around a set of openings. An annular...