Patents by Inventor Jennifer A. Gunn
Jennifer A. Gunn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11911325Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) of a patient bed is used by a caregiver to manually enter location data indicative of a location in a healthcare facility at which the patient bed is located. A first screen for manually entering location data is displayed on the GUI after a threshold period of time elapses subsequent to a power plug of the patient bed being plugged into an alternating current (AC) outlet of the healthcare facility and subsequent to casters of the patient bed being braked. A voice prompt is also given from the patient bed after the threshold period of time elapses to remind the caregiver to manually enter the location data. After manual entry of the location data, circuitry of the patient bed transmits the location data entered by the caregiver and a bed identification (ID) from the bed for receipt by a remote computer for purposes of making a bed-to-room association.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Richard H. Heimbrock, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder, Hubert Lechable, Jean-Marie Remoleur, Jimmy Samson, Richard J. Schuman
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Publication number: 20230298740Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Timothy J. Receveur, Frederick Collin Davidson, Stephen R. Embree, Britten J. Pipher, Eric D. Agdeppa, Steven D. Baker, Bradley T. Smith, Pamela Wells, Laura A. Hassey, Kiana M. Dezelon, Thomas A. Myers, Andrew S. Robinson, Varad N. Srivastava, Douglas A. Seim, Kenzi L. Mudge, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder, Brandon Smith, Tanya M. Hawthorne, Elizabeth A. Kowal
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Patent number: 11763815Abstract: A location monitoring system tracks a location of a user within a healthcare facility. When the user is detected in a patient room an electronic controller activates a voice command database having a plurality of voice commands specific to the user. A microphone located in the patient room receives one of the plurality of voice commands. The electronic controller transmits the one of the plurality of voice commands to a remote device positioned outside of the patient room.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Jerald W. Judy, Bita Akhlaghi, David O. Melgar, Daniel Sampson, Edwin N. Swift, Jennifer A. Gunn, Darren S. Hudgins, Patrick D. Harrison, William B. Richard
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Patent number: 11699517Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Receveur, Frederick Collin Davidson, Stephen R. Embree, Britten J. Pipher, Eric D. Agdeppa, Steven D. Baker, Bradley T. Smith, Pamela Wells, Laura A. Hassey, Kiana M. Dezelon, Thomas A. Myers, Andrew S. Robinson, Varad N. Srivastava, Douglas A. Seim, Kenzi L. Mudge, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder, Brandon Smith, Tanya M. Hawthorne, Elizabeth A. Kowal
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Patent number: 11688511Abstract: A mobile caregiver application is stored on mobile devices of caregivers for managing alert messages generated by a variety of equipment in a healthcare information system. The mobile caregiver application allows secure voice, text, and, optionally, video communication between caregivers using their mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Sherrod L. Faulks, Elizabeth A. Kowal, David M. Girardeau, Bartholomew F. Sferrazza, John Moulson, Dino R. Bostic, Darren S. Hudgins, Adam Drufke, Ronald W. Taylor, Collin Davidson, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder
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Publication number: 20220139540Abstract: A mobile caregiver application is stored on mobile devices of caregivers for managing alert messages generated by a variety of equipment in a healthcare information system. The mobile caregiver application allows secure voice, text, and, optionally, video communication between caregivers using their mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Sherrod L. Faulks, Elizabeth A. Kowal, David M. Girardeau, Bartholomew F. Sferrazza, John Moulson, Dino R. Bostic, Darren S. Hudgins, Adam Drufke, Ronald W. Taylor, Collin Davidson, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder
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Patent number: 11257588Abstract: A mobile caregiver application is stored on mobile devices of caregivers for managing alert messages generated by a variety of equipment in a healthcare information system. The mobile caregiver application allows secure voice, text, and, optionally, video communication between caregivers using their mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Sherrod L. Faulks, Elizabeth A. Kowal, David M. Girardeau, Bartholomew F. Sferrazza, John Moulson, Dino R. Bostic, Darren S. Hudgins, Adam Drufke, Ronald W. Taylor, Collin Davidson, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder
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Publication number: 20210319793Abstract: A location monitoring system tracks a location of a user within a healthcare facility. When the user is detected in a patient room an electronic controller activates a voice command database having a plurality of voice commands specific to the user. A microphone located in the patient room receives one of the plurality of voice commands. The electronic controller transmits the one of the plurality of voice commands to a remote device positioned outside of the patient room.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Jerald W. Judy, Bita Akhlaghi, David O. Melgar, Daniel Sampson, Edwin N. Swift, Jennifer A. Gunn, Darren S. Hudgins, Patrick D. Harrison, William B. Richard
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Patent number: 11062707Abstract: A location monitoring system tracks a location of a user within a healthcare facility. When the user is detected in a patient room an electronic controller activates a voice command database having a plurality of voice commands specific to the user. A microphone located in the patient room receives one of the plurality of voice commands. The electronic controller transmits the one of the plurality of voice commands to a remote device positioned outside of the patient room.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Jerald W. Judy, Bita Akhlaghi, David O. Melgar, Daniel Sampson, Edwin N. Swift, Jennifer A. Gunn, Darren S. Hudgins, Patrick D. Harrison, William B. Richard
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Publication number: 20210174948Abstract: A mobile caregiver application is stored on mobile devices of caregivers for managing alert messages generated by a variety of equipment in a healthcare information system. The mobile caregiver application allows secure voice, text, and, optionally, video communication between caregivers using their mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Sherrod L. Faulks, Elizabeth A. Kowal, David M. Girardeau, Bartholomew F. Sferrazza, John Moulson, Dino R. Bostic, Darren S. Hudgins, Adam Drufke, Ronald W. Taylor, Collin Davidson, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder
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Patent number: 10957445Abstract: A mobile caregiver application is stored on mobile devices of caregivers for managing alert messages generated by a variety of equipment in a healthcare information system. The mobile caregiver application allows secure voice, text, and, optionally, video communication between caregivers using their mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Sherrod L. Faulks, Elizabeth A. Kowal, David M. Girardeau, Bartholomew F. Sferrazza, John Moulson, Dino R. Bostic, Darren S. Hudgins, Adam Drufke, Ronald W. Taylor, II, Collin Davidson, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder
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Publication number: 20210065885Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Timothy J. Receveur, Frederick Collin Davidson, Stephen R. Embree, Britten J. Pipher, Eric D. Agdeppa, Steven D. Baker, Bradley T. Smith, Pamela Wells, Laura A. Hassey, Kiana M. Dezelon, Thomas A. Myers, Andrew S. Robinson, Varad N. Srivastava, Douglas A. Seim, Kenzi L. Mudge, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder, Brandon Smith, Tanya M. Hawthorne, Elizabeth A. Kowal
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Publication number: 20200345568Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) of a patient bed is used by a caregiver to manually enter location data indicative of a location in a healthcare facility at which the patient bed is located. A first screen for manually entering location data is displayed on the GUI after a threshold period of time elapses subsequent to a power plug of the patient bed being plugged into an alternating current (AC) outlet of the healthcare facility and subsequent to casters of the patient bed being braked. A voice prompt is also given from the patient bed after the threshold period of time elapses to remind the caregiver to manually enter the location data. After manual entry of the location data, circuitry of the patient bed transmits the location data entered by the caregiver and a bed identification (ID) from the bed for receipt by a remote computer for purposes of making a bed-to-room association.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Richard H. Heimbrock, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder, Hubert Lechable, Jean-Marie Remoleur, Jimmy Samson, Richard J. Schuman
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Publication number: 20200268579Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) of a patient bed is used by a caregiver to manually enter location data indicative of a location in a healthcare facility at which the patient bed is located. A first screen for manually entering location data is displayed on the GUI after a threshold period of time elapses subsequent to a power plug of the patient bed being plugged into an alternating current (AC) outlet of the healthcare facility and subsequent to casters of the patient bed being braked. A voice prompt is also given from the patient bed after the threshold period of time elapses to remind the caregiver to manually enter the location data. After manual entry of the location data, circuitry of the patient bed transmits the location data entered by the caregiver and a bed identification (ID) from the bed for receipt by a remote computer for purposes of making a bed-to-room association.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Richard H. Heimbrock, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder
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Patent number: 10632033Abstract: A patient bed is provided in a healthcare facility having a network including a real time locating system (RTLS) and an electronic medical records (EMR) computer. The patient bed includes bed control circuitry that is configured to receive at least one protocol messages from the EMR computer and, in response to the at least one protocol message, enables at least one bed safety protocol in which at least one bed condition is monitored by the bed control circuitry. The bed control circuitry generates an alert in response to the at least one bed condition being in an undesirable state and no caregiver being present in the patient room as determined by the RTLS and communicated to the bed circuitry. The bed control circuitry suspends monitoring the at least one bed condition in response to the RTLS indicating to the bed control circuitry that at least one caregiver is present in the patient room.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Kelly F. Walton, Jennifer A. Gunn, Kiana M. Dezelon
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Publication number: 20200113761Abstract: A patient bed is provided in a healthcare facility having a network including a real time locating system (RTLS) and an electronic medical records (EMR) computer. The patient bed includes bed control circuitry that is configured to receive at least one protocol messages from the EMR computer and, in response to the at least one protocol message, enables at least one bed safety protocol in which at least one bed condition is monitored by the bed control circuitry. The bed control circuitry generates an alert in response to the at least one bed condition being in an undesirable state and no caregiver being present in the patient room as determined by the RTLS and communicated to the bed circuitry. The bed control circuitry suspends monitoring the at least one bed condition in response to the RTLS indicating to the bed control circuitry that at least one caregiver is present in the patient room.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Kelly F. Walton, Jennifer A. Gunn, Kiana M. Dezelon
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Patent number: 10561549Abstract: A patient bed is provided in a healthcare facility having a network including a real time locating system (RTLS) and an electronic medical records (EMR) computer. The patient bed includes bed control circuitry that is configured to receive at least one protocol messages from the EMR computer and, in response to the at least one protocol message, enables at least one bed safety protocol in which at least one bed condition is monitored by the bed control circuitry. The bed control circuitry generates an alert in response to the at least one bed condition being in an undesirable state and no caregiver being present in the patient room as determined by the RTLS and communicated to the bed circuitry. The bed control circuitry suspends monitoring the at least one bed condition in response to the RTLS indicating to the bed control circuitry that at least one caregiver is present in the patient room.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Kelly F. Walton, Jennifer A. Gunn, Kiana M. Dezelon
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Publication number: 20200005783Abstract: A location monitoring system tracks a location of a user within a healthcare facility. When the user is detected in a patient room an electronic controller activates a voice command database having a plurality of voice commands specific to the user. A microphone located in the patient room receives one of the plurality of voice commands. The electronic controller transmits the one of the plurality of voice commands to a remote device positioned outside of the patient room.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Jerald W. Judy, Bita Akhlaghi, David O. Melgar, Daniel Sampson, Edwin N. Swift, Jennifer A. Gunn, Darren S. Hudgins, Patrick D. Harrison, William B. Richard
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Publication number: 20190108908Abstract: A mobile caregiver application is stored on mobile devices of caregivers for managing alert messages generated by a variety of equipment in a healthcare information system. The mobile caregiver application allows secure voice, text, and, optionally, video communication between caregivers using their mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Sherrod L. Faulks, Elizabeth A. Kowal, David M. Girardeau, Bartholomew F. Sferrazza, John Moulson, Dino R. Bostic, Darren S. Hudgins, Adam Drufke, Ronald W. Taylor, II, Collin Davidson, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder
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Publication number: 20190029900Abstract: A patient bed is provided in a healthcare facility having a network including a real time locating system (RTLS) and an electronic medical records (EMR) computer. The patient bed includes bed control circuitry that is configured to receive at least one protocol messages from the EMR computer and, in response to the at least one protocol message, enables at least one bed safety protocol in which at least one bed condition is monitored by the bed control circuitry. The bed control circuitry generates an alert in response to the at least one bed condition being in an undesirable state and no caregiver being present in the patient room as determined by the RTLS and communicated to the bed circuitry. The bed control circuitry suspends monitoring the at least one bed condition in response to the RTLS indicating to the bed control circuitry that at least one caregiver is present in the patient room.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Kelly F. Walton, Jennifer A. Gunn, Kiana M. Dezelon