US Patent Issued to Principle Long Term Care on Aug. 4 for "Bed lift system and methods of making and using the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,260, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Principle Long Term Care Inc. (Kinston, N.C.).

"Bed lift system and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Jonathan Earl White (Apex, N.C.) and Maxwell Olszewski Mason (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift system includes a support configured to maintain a bed frame thereon. The support is defined by a first swing arm opposing a second swing arm and a pivoting plate opposing an end plate. First ends of the swing arms are configured to swing outward about ends of the pivoting plate. Second ends of the swing arms removably attach to the end plate to form a rectangu...