ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,288, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for ambient energy powered physiological parameter monitoring" was invented by Ryan W. Apperson (Redmond, Wash.), Reza Sharif (Lake Forest, Wash.), Matthew Lawrence Bielstein (Seattle) and Arthur T. Lounsbery (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating and/or monitoring a patient includes a patient physiological parameter monitoring patch and a companion device. The patient physiological parameter monitoring patch including an energy harvesting module, an energy storage module, a sensor module and a communication ...