US Patent Issued to Elekta on Aug. 4 for "Patient support system for use with a medical device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,078, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Patient support system for use with a medical device" was invented by Paul Boxall (Crawley, Great Britain), David Gilmore (Crawley, Great Britain) and Wayne Lomax (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system for use with a medical device. The patient support system comprises a patient support surface comprising at least one electronic display region configured to display information; one or more proximity sensors configured to provide signals indicative of the presence of a person or object in the vicinity of the patient su...