US Patent Issued to American Sterilizer on Sept. 15 for "Surgical table including cable take-up mechanism" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,091, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to American Sterilizer Co. (Mentor, Ohio).

"Surgical table including cable take-up mechanism" was invented by Michael E. Koerth (Newbury, Ohio), Peter J. Kozelj (Willoughby Hills, Ohio) and John M. Kasunich (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical table includes a base, a tabletop, first and second frameworks, a cable, and a cable take-up mechanism. The first and second frameworks are moveable relative to one another to move the tabletop relative to the base in a first direction and a second direction that is opposite the first direction. The cable has a first end, a sec...