US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on June 24 for "Contactless patient motion monitoring" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,809, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Contactless patient motion monitoring" was invented by Jennifer Meddings (Ann Arbor, Mich.), James A. Ashton-Miller (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shiyu Wang (Seattle), Jessica Marie Ameling (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shuai Xiong (Shanghai City, China) and Zizheng Zhang (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for real-time monitoring of movement of a person on a mattress includes sensor devices positioned on one or more peripheral surfaces of the mattress and configured to sense lateral accelerations of the peripheral surface(s). The ...