US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 30 for "Simultaneous gesture-based actuation of a medical facility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,970, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Simultaneous gesture-based actuation of a medical facility" was invented by Volker Dietz (Hoechstadt an der Aisch, Germany), Tobias Leis (Ergoldsbach, Germany), Marcel Ruf (Langensendelbach, Germany), Jennifer Jones (Nuremberg, Germany), Steffen Dittrich (Erlangen, Germany), Milena Limpert (Zeitlofs, Germany), Nicole Maass (Heroldsbach, Germany) and Steffen Riess (Winkelhaid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A command communication facility is described. The command communication facility includes a sensor unit for detecting a movement of an ...