US 12,093,079 B2
Display monitors and monitor mount
Juan P. Eslava, Groton, MA (US); and Peter Lund, Nashua, NH (US)
Assigned to DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGAA, Lübeck (DE)
Filed by DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGAA, Lübeck (DE)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/389,402.
Application 18/389,402 is a continuation of application No. 17/873,851, filed on Jul. 26, 2022, granted, now 11,853,123.
Application 17/873,851 is a continuation of application No. 16/707,577, filed on Dec. 9, 2019, granted, now 11,449,101, issued on Sep. 20, 2022.
Application 16/707,577 is a continuation of application No. 16/314,297, granted, now 10,539,977, issued on Jan. 21, 2020, previously published as PCT/US2017/066128, filed on Dec. 13, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/439,427, filed on Dec. 27, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2024/0094773 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/0205 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1632 (2013.01) [A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/0205 (2013.01); A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); A61B 5/7445 (2013.01); G06F 1/1654 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0456 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable monitor, comprising:
a first electronic visual display;
a first processor to control the first electronic visual display;
a first memory communicatively coupled to the first processor;
a first sensor interface to communicatively couple a physiological sensor or a medical device to the processor; and
a first communication interface to communicatively couple the portable monitor and the second monitor when they are detachably secured, such that information from the first monitor appears on a second electronic visual display;
the portable monitor being:
a size and shape to be detachably secured to either or both of:
a monitor mount; and
a second monitor having the second electronic visual display and a size and shape to surround or obscure at least part of the first electronic visual display when secured to the portable monitor; and
operable to collect, process, and display information whether secured to or detached from the second monitor, the monitor mount, or both the second monitor and the monitor mount.