US Patent Issued to Allen Medical Systems on Feb. 17 for "Person support apparatuses including hip and thigh support assemblies" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,395, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Allen Medical Systems Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Person support apparatuses including hip and thigh support assemblies" was invented by Michael Boucher (Batesville, Ind.), Hung D. Nguyen (Batesville, Ind.), Christopher B. Dubois (Batesville, Ind.), Andrew R. Marchand (Batesville, Ind.) and Mary Kelly Chance (Batesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A person support apparatus includes a base frame, a longitudinal frame coupled to the base frame and extending in a longitudinal direction, and a hip/thigh support assembly. The hip/thigh support assembly is slidably positioned along the longit...