ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,675, issued on June 24, was assigned to UMANO MEDICAL INC. (L'Islet, Canada).
"Hospital bed exit detection method and system" was invented by Esther Berthelot (Levis, Canada), Steve Bolduc (Beaumont, Canada), Etienne St-Pierre (Quebec, Canada), David Moreno (Quebec, Canada) and Gabriel Mercier (Saint-Vallier, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an exit of a patient from a hospital bed, the method comprising: detecting a presence of the patient on the bed, upon detection of the patient on the bed, monitoring an indication that the patient has moved from a predetermined patient area on a patient receiving surfa...