ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,686, issued on July 21.
"Medical table assembly" was invented by Patricia Thompson (Houston) and Sean Copeland (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical table assembly includes a medical table that has a pad and a frame. The pad has a fixed portion and a pair of movable portions that is each urgeable back and forth with respect to the fixed portion for linearly stretching the patient's body. A pair of motion units is each in mechanical communication with a respective one of the pair of movable portions of the pad for urging the respective movable portion to move back and forth with respect to the fixed portion. A touch screen...