US Patent Issued to Stryker on April 8 for "Tool for configuring headwall units used for patient support apparatus communication" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,453, issued on April 8, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Tool for configuring headwall units used for patient support apparatus communication" was invented by Kirby M. Neihouser (Portage, Mich.), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Nicholas S. Brajak (Portage, Mich.), Michael Harry Lau (Bristol, Ind.) and Jerald A. Trepanier (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable configuration tool for configuring a headwall unit that is adapted to be electrically coupled to an outlet on a headwall communicates with a room device positioned within a common room with the headwall unit. The tool includes...