US Patent 12094601 Auto-association of medical devices with location

A procedure for automatically associating a mobile medical device with its current location is disclosed. The procedure allows automatic determination of the location of the mobile medical device without requiring either specialized location determination equipment or expensive computer equipment. A database of switch port to room associations created during a provisioning setup procedure is used when the mobile medical device connects to a network port after being brought into a patient room to associate the mobile medical device with the room and thereby the patient.