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Liko Research & Development Ab

Original Design Products, LLC

John D Christie

Gavin Martin Monson

Dan R Tallent

James D Voll

Neal Wiggermann

Kirsten M Emmons

Marwan E Nusair

Robert Mark Zerhusen

John V Harmeyer

Bryan Weidman

David Lance Ribble

Timothy A Lane, Ii

Yongji Fu

Ryan S Severns

Brandon P Fisk

Keith R Kubicek

Brett A Knittle

Steven Alan Dixon

Douglas A Seim

Eric David Benz

Charles A Lachenbruch

Michael Scott Hood

Frank E Sauser

Joseph T Canter

Jonathan D Turner

Aziz Ali Bhai

Todd P O'Neal

David P Lubbers

Scott M Corbin

Clay Gerome Owsley

Joshua A Williams

Edward J Koors

Gregory Wiley

Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr

Keith Adam Huster

James Maurice Allen

Timothy D Wildman

Thomas F Heil

Jack Barney Sing

Mahesh Kumar Thodupunuri

Robert A Bossingham

James Dean Lattimore

Mark Lanning

Joseph A Ernst

Arpit Shah

Umesh Jairamdas Rajani

Richard Henry Heimbrock

James L Walke

Jean-Bernard Duvert

Jeffrey A Ruschke

Bradley T Smith

David C Newkirk

Brian Lee Lawrence

Clementine Pirio

Roger Karlsson

John G Byers

Douglas E Borgman

Stephen E Hutchison

Michael Buccieri

Brian S Guthrie

Catherine M Wagner

Elin K Dovervik

David J Hitchcock

Travis A Pelo

Kathryn R Smith

Unnati Ojha

Sravan A Mamidi

John Goewert

Karin L Olsson

Mark Tyler Rigsby

David J Brzenchek

Daniel Nachtigal

Johan Lyckestig

Florin Iucha

James W Pascoe

Jared Rude

Karen Lanning

Mary Kay Brinkman

Nathaniel W Hixon

Richard J Schuman, Sr

Todd S Ventrola

Michael M Frondorf

David Lawrence Bedel

Gregory J Shannon

Steven V McCaig

Jason M Williams

Brian Guthrie

Jennifer Domina Slavin

Lari E Rutherford

Michael Jackson

Vijay Aditya Tadipatri

Mark E Lanning

M Tyler Rigsby

Michael A Hood

Reece Allan Michael Caldwell

Shawn J Keller

David L Bedel

Todd P O'neal

Douglas A Eckstein

Reece A M Caldwell

Systems and methods of associating beds and/or rooms and/or patients are provided. One system and method involves using a signature of emitted light to determine a location of a patient bed in a healthcare facility. Another system and method involves reading a bar code from an array of redundant bar codes. Still another system and method involves manually entering location information on a graphical user interface of a patient bed for subsequent transmission. A further system and method involves sending bed ID and location ID along parallel paths from two independent circuits on a patient bed for receipt by two different transceivers and ultimately by two different remote computers that cooperate to associate the bed ID with the location ID. Still a further system and method involves using circuitry on a bed to mutate a received location ID and a bed ID into a single unique mutated ID such as by adding the location ID and bed ID and then performing a hashing operation.

Bed/room/patient association systems and methods

A patient support apparatus includes a base frame, lift mechanism supporting an upper frame relative to the base frame, a load frame, and a plurality of deck sections, a patient support surface, and a number of barriers positioned about the patient supporting surface. The patient support apparatus includes a notification system for visually notifying a caregiver of a condition or status of a component of the patient support apparatus.

Patient support apparatus

A patient support apparatus, such as a hospital bed, includes an alert light assembly or an alert light module having separate zones that are individually illuminated to convey information regarding respective alert conditions. The zones each have indicia related to a particular condition of the patient support apparatus. The illuminated zones are each sufficiently large so as to be seen from afar, such as on the order of ten feet or more. Alternatively or additionally, a GUI of the patient support apparatus displays alert indicia as part of a screen saver. Further alternatively or additionally, the patient support apparatus illuminates an alert light in a manner indicating an optimal time for taking a patient's vital signs.

Multi-alert lights for hospital bed

A time-based wireless pairing operation between a medical device, such as a patient bed, and a wall module in a patient room is initiated in response to a power plug of the medical device being plugged into a power receptacle carried by the wall module. Times determined by timers of the medical device and the wall module are compared by the wall module or by the medical device so that wireless pairing occurs only with the medical device that was plugged into the wall module. Different types of plug detectors used in the wall module to detect connection of the power plug include optical detectors, mechanical switches, and current sensors.

Time-based wireless pairing between a medical device and a wall unit

A wireless locating system and method include receiving first messages at a server. The first messages include bed location data entered manually on a user interface of a first patient bed. The first messages also include signal strength data from a plurality of wireless access points in communication with the first patient bed. A first signal strength profile for the first patient bed at a first location is built by the server. The first patient bed is removed from the first location and a second bed is moved into the first location. The second patient bed does not have manual location data entry capability. A second signal strength profile is built by the server for the second patient bed. The server compares the second signal strength profile with the first signal strength profile and determines that the second patient bed is at the first location if the second signal strength profile matches the first signal strength profile.

Wireless location learning

An incontinence detection system monitors an area for moisture events and wirelessly transmits moisture-related information to one or more notification devices. The system has a pad that includes a substrate and one or more sensors supported by the substrate. The sensor(s) emit wireless signals indicative of the moisture-related information. A sensor event communication system forwards the sensor signals to another device, such as a notification device. Portions of the system are included in a patient support apparatus, such as a bed.

Incontinence detection systems for hospital beds

An incontinence detection pad has an RFID tag in which an authentication code, such as an electronic product code (EPC), is stored. A reader in wireless communication with the RFID tag of the incontinence detection pad verifies that the incontinence detection pad is an authorized detection pad. Thus, unauthorized incontinence detection pads that do not have the proper authentication code are not able to be used in an incontinence detection system.

Incontinence detection method

An absorbent article has one or more fluid filter layers to inhibit electrode traces from being exposed to low volumes of fluid to reduce the number of false positives that are indicated by an RFID tag of the incontinence detection pad. An antenna inlay has a sacrificial trace portion to permit testing for proper operation of an RFID chip electrically coupled to the antenna inlay. After testing, the sacrificial trace portion is severed. A fluid barrier layer blocks fluid from reaching portions of electrode traces that are located on a backsheet outside a periphery of an absorbent core of an incontinence detection pad. The power at which an antenna transmits to wirelessly energize a passive RFID tag of an incontinence detection pad is controlled to reduce the number of false positives indicated by the RFID tag.

Method of manufacturing RFID tags

A sling for supporting a subject such as a patient includes a panel assembly including a left flank with a left end, a right flank with a right end, and an interflank panel. The interflank panel has a left extremity permanently joined to the left end of the left flank and a right extremity permanently joined to the right end of the right flank. The sling also includes a left closure element and a right closure element which are securable to each other and releasable from each other to adjust an effective dimension of the sling. In another embodiment, the sling includes a frangible closure member which secures the left flank to the right flank.

Size adjustable sling

Incontinence detection pad having redundant electrical paths to an RFID tag

Incontinence detection pad validation apparatus and method

An apparatus and method for easily and simply lifting and holding upon a heavy cumbersome lids, such as those found on large trash containers thereby allowing the user the use of both hands for hoisting and dumping the trash without having to hold open the lid with one hand or other body part. Furthermore, the use of an external device to lift and hold open the lid makes it easier to keep the task hygienic.

Lid lifting device

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Batesville, IN, United States of America

John D Christie