US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on March 18 for "Fall prediction system including a beacon and method of using same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,755, issued on March 18, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Fall prediction system including a beacon and method of using same" was invented by Justin R. Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Buye Xu (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Jason A. Galster (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a beacon that can be utilized with a fall prediction system and a method of utilizing such system are disclosed. The fall prediction system includes a head-worn device for a user, a beacon adapted to detect a hazard and generate a beacon signal based on the detected hazard, and a controller operatively ...