Patent ID: 11967426
Assignee: ENOVATE MEDICAL, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A method of managing a fleet of mobile workstations in a facility comprising:
sensing, by a first sensor residing on a mobile workstation of the fleet of mobile work stations, a location of the mobile work station;
sensing, by a second sensor residing on the mobile workstation, an occurrence of a specified event relating to the use of the mobile workstation;
transmitting, by a transceiver resident on the mobile workstation and operably coupled to the first sensor, via a wireless network, to a remote server a data packet, wherein the data packet contains data representing the location of the mobile work station and the occurrence of the specified event;
storing, for the fleet of mobile workstations, use state data when the specified event occurs;
determining, based on the use state data, a use state of the mobile workstation;
determining, by the remote server, an actual location and an assigned location to the mobile workstation based on the data packet received by the remote server;
providing, via a user interface, an option to locate the mobile workstation;
comparing, by the remote server, the actual location of the mobile workstation to the assigned location of the mobile workstation; and
providing, via the user interface, a first notification indicating that the actual location of the mobile workstation corresponds to the assigned location of the mobile workstation.