US Patent Issued to Baxter Medical Systems on Sept. 29 for "Patient table with heated pad" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,166, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Baxter Medical Systems GmbH & Co. KG (Saalfeld, Germany).

"Patient table with heated pad" was invented by David Hitchcock (Westford, Mass.), Mark Watercutter (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.), Georg Kollner (Thuringen, Germany), Dieter Ceglarz (Munich) and Ryan Matthew Rasmussen (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient operating table includes a support mattress with a plurality of pads. The plurality of pads includes a central pad located to support a midsection of a patient's body. The central pad includes an outer shell with a seam that has a hermetic seal and defines a cell therein...