We know that every medical device in the US has to be approved by the FDA. These are not on the list. Other brands are. These are not. Therefore they cannot be legally used in the US on humans. This approval process normally takes years. I don't know if you know the extreme lengths the FDA goes to approve a medical device for use on humans, especially in a hospital setting. For instance, it has to be fail-safe, such as the computer or PLC that runs the device and displays information. This takes a LONG time. I use an insulin pump that took over 10 years to be approved. Maybe someone bought them as a speculative investment, hoping that the FDA would give emergency approval for this brand, then they'd be able to sell them at an extreme markup. This happened with a bunch of medical gear over the last year. So as far as it goes, we do not have any information one way or the other who ordered these, who paid for them, and who ordered them to be dumped. May be a private party, may be a government entity. One would think that there would be a paperwork trail if it was for government. I think it'd be premature to jump to conclusions without more information. One thing that we do know: Normally if the government is involved in getting rid of equipment, they either auction it off on .gov websites or it is destroyed. I used to attend government auctions. They save and auction EVERYTHING, including, for instance, pallets of expired N95 masks that were being sold even after the pandemic emergency began and there was a already mask shortage in effect. Since they were expired, they weren't allowed to use them. I saw them myself on the GSA auction website. I think if the government was involved, these would have been auctioned.