US Patent Issued to Arjo IP Holding Aktiebolag on Sept. 8 for "Patient hoist" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,055, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Arjo IP Holding Aktiebolag (Malmo, Sweden).

"Patient hoist" was invented by Olivier Custeau-Boisclair (Sherbrooke, Canada), Denis-Alexandre Brulotte (Orford, Canada), Jacob Belanger-Brault (Sherbrooke, Canada) and Marie-Pier Gaudet (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient lift and a contacting apparatus for engaging a track conductor of a track in a track system of the patient lift are disclosed. The contacting apparatus is adapted to be mounted to a hoist trolley of the patient lift movably connected to the track system. The contacting apparatus has a biasing arrangement ad...