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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Karl Storz Imaging, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Matteo Contolini, Goleta, CA (US);
Juri Baumberger, Goleta, CA (US);
Karl Storz Imaging, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a medical device and an authenticator. The medical device has a medical sensor configured to generate patient data indicative of a sensed physiological characteristic of a patient. The authenticator has at least one biometric sensor configured to generate at least one biometric signal indicative of at least one biometric characteristic of a user of the medical device. The authenticator is configured to (i) identify and authenticate a user of the medical device, (ii) protect patient data generated by the medical sensor of the medical device using a user ID unique to the identified user, and (iii) save the protected patient data to a memory.