US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Dec. 2 for "Predictive fall event management system and method of using same" (Minnesota, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,860, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Predictive fall event management system and method of using same" was invented by Justin R. Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Buye Xu (Sammamish, Wash.), Jason A. Galster (Studio City, Calif.), Peter J. Tetrick (Chaska, Minn.) and Sourav K. Bhunia (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a predictive fall event management system and a method of using such system are disclosed. The system includes a body-worn device and a controller operatively connected to the body-worn device. The controller is adapted to receive phy...