ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,162, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EHOB Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Patient positioning and transfer sheet" was invented by Gregory R. Konkle (Indianapolis), Christian Gastaldo (Indianapolis), Jared Scott Cohen (Indianapolis) and Isaac Oberhausen (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transfer sheet includes a core panel sized to receive at least the torso and upper legs of a patient lying thereon and a side strip extending along each of the opposite side edges. Each side strip is a single sheet side panel that is folded twice to define four layers and to overlap a side portion of the core panel adjacent a corres...