Association of support surfaces and beds

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8604916
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13242255

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Systems, methods, beds, supports surfaces and machine readable medium for associating beds and support surface of a healthcare facility are disclosed. A surface association system for a healthcare facility may comprise a plurality of beds. The system may further comprise a computing device and a plurality of support surfaces to be placed upon beds of the plurality of beds. The computing device may associate a support surface of the plurality of support surfaces with a bed of the plurality of beds. The computing device may make the association based upon status data received from the plurality of beds and the plurality of support surfaces. The support surface and/or bed to be associated may initiate a surface association request. The computing device, in response to the surface association request, may request performance of one or more actions on the bed and/or support surface to be associated to identify the bed and/or support surface from the beds and support surfaces of the healthcare facility.

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  • HILL-ROM SERVICES, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bhatia, Daleep Cary, US 9 239
Ferguson, David C Wake Forest, US 8 218
Glidewell, Patricia A Cary, US 43 1636
Huster, Keith A Sunman, US 78 4645
McNeely, Craig A Columbus, US 16 1245
Riley, Carl W Milan, US 96 7583
Vanderpohl,, III Irvin J Greensburg, US 74 2542
Zhao, Simeon Apex, US 8 239

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