ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,128, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Location detection systems and methods" was invented by Michael Joseph Hayes (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Jonathan Mark Greenbank (Plainwell, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location detection system identifies the locations of medical devices such as patient support apparatuses and/or patient care devices within a medical facility. The devices communicate via a wired connection to one or more medical facility systems (e.g. nurse call system, computer network, etc.), and/or via a wireless connection to such system...