US Patent Issued to NxStage Medical on June 24 for "User interface monitoring and verification thereof in medical treatment systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,085, issued on June 24, was assigned to NxStage Medical Inc. (Lawrence, Mass.).

"User interface monitoring and verification thereof in medical treatment systems" was invented by Mark T. Wyeth (Andover, Mass.), Gregory Yantz (Boxford, Mass.) and Sarah-Paul McCarty (Reading, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical treatment system is configured to output a predefined test pattern and to receive the signal by way of a microphone in order to test the volume and quality of the audio output in order to ensure the output audio signals effective to wake a sleeping patient. The failure of a processor to confirm the volume and fidelity ...