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Hospital bed exit detection, height limiting and tare weight recalibrating systems and methods

  • US 10,497,247 B2
  • Filed: 11/20/2017
  • Issued: 12/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for detecting an exit of a patient from a hospital bed, the method comprising:

  • detecting a presence of the patient on a patient receiving surface of the bed;

    upon detection of the presence the patient on the patient receiving surface, automatically monitoring the presence of the patient within a predetermined patient area on the patient receiving surface;

    detecting that the patient has moved from the predetermined patient to outside the predetermined patient area; and

    upon said detecting that the patient has moved outside the predetermined patient area, activating a bed alarm, thereby indicating to a user that an exit of the patient from the hospital bed has been detected.

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