US Patent Issued to Linet spol. s.r.o. on Oct. 6 for "Patient support apparatus having central dual control system of casters" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,877, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Linet spol. s.r.o. (Slany, Czech Republic).

"Patient support apparatus having central dual control system of casters" was invented by Vladimir Kolar (Slany, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus having a central dual control system of casters with an actuating pedal. Two opposite casters are connected by a control shaft with hexagonal cross section. Both control shafts are mutually coupled via a connecting member to a linkage rod. A servomotor with a rack is coupled to the linkage rod. The servomotor is configured to change a position of the rack of the servomo...