ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,183, issued on July 1, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Medical communication hub and associated methods" was invented by Jason Spencer (Rocklin, Calif.), Gerald L. Litzza (Sacramento, Calif.), Craig A. Lindsay (Sacramento, Calif.) and Richard Glover (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient communication system having a medical sensing device operable to collect medical data, a network communication module operable to transmit the medical data onto a data network, a controller operable route the first medical sensing data to the network communication module, and a power source operable to provid...