US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for enhancing comfort individuals in contact with surfaces" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,709, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for enhancing comfort individuals in contact with surfaces" was invented by Sundaresan Jayaraman (Atlanta), Sungmee Park (Atlanta) and Kyle W. Motter (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, and methods relating to making individuals comfortable when in contact with surfaces (e.g., seats and beds) including preventing pressure injuries on subjects. In embodiments, disclosed herein are pressure injury prevention systems comprising actuator assemblies that can simultaneously provide immersion and offlo...