US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Dec. 9 for "Smart mattress system and methods for patient monitoring and repositioning" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,938, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Smart mattress system and methods for patient monitoring and repositioning" was invented by Jong Woo Lee (Newton, Mass.) and Andres Rodriguez (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for patient monitoring and repositioning are provided. The system includes a mattress with a cell array and a base board array to receive the cell array. The cell array includes a plurality of individually height-adjustable cells each having sensor surface configured to sense at least one biomarker of the patient while lying on the mattress. T...