US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on Sept. 29 for "Transport system with care cart assembly" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,164, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Transport system with care cart assembly" was invented by Nicholas Mann (Cincinnati), David C. Newkirk (Lawrenceburg, Ind.), Todd P. O'Neal (Fairfield, Ohio), Travis A. Pelo (Columbus, Ohio), Jack Barney Sing (Batesville, Ind.), Neal Wiggerman (Batesville, Ind.) and Robert Mark Zerhusen (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system for a medical facility includes a support apparatus including a frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a frame connector. A care cart assembly includes a cart connector selectively coupled with the fr...