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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2020
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Janani Gopalkrishnan, Portage, MI (US);
Jason A. Vanderplas, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Michael Joseph Hayes, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Marco Constant, Portage, MI (US);
Eileen Siew Chin Cheong Youne, Houston, TX (US);
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
Patient care devices, such as person support apparatuses and thermal control units, include multiple internal network nodes. A controller is associated with each node and at least one of the controllers is adapted to process a message received from another node, convert the message from a first communication protocol to a different communication protocol, and forward the message to yet another node using the different communication protocol. One or more of the controllers may also or alternatively reformulate a packet received in a first format from a first node and forward the reformulated packet to another node. One or more controllers may also send messages over a common data link layer wherein some of the messages are formatted according to different message protocols. Some controllers may utilize real time operating systems while others may not.