Hill-Rom Services, Inc.

Tanya M Hawthorne

Steven D Baker

Timothy Joseph Receveur

Eric D Agdeppa

Thomas A Myers

Douglas A Seim

Kenzi L Mudge

Varad Narayan Srivastava

Frederick Collin Davidson

Britten J Pipher

Kiana Mathews Dezelon

Bradley T Smith

Stephen R Embree

Andrew S Robinson

John S Schroder

Jennifer A Gunn

Laura A Hassey

Pamela Wells

Brandon Smith

Elizabeth A Kowal

High-accuracy locating systems and methods are used for determining successful caregiver rounding, monitoring whether housekeepers have properly cleaned patient beds, or determining whether patients have ambulated sufficient distances during recovery. Patient beds having at least two locating tags are used for establishing patient care zones around the patient beds. Locating anchors and equipment tags are moved around a patient room to determine optimum locating anchor placement within the patient room based on signal quality values. A locating tag on a patient bed switches roles to operate as a locating anchor in response to the patient bed becoming stationary. A locating tag has a digital compass which is used to determine a field of good ranging relative to a front of a caregiver wearing the locating tag.

Ultra-wideband locating systems and methods

Growing community of inventors

Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Tanya M Hawthorne