ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,525, issued on April 14, was assigned to Raye's Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Support apparatus, system and method" was invented by David A. Dzioba (Freeland, Mich.), Kenneth A. Wolf (Chesterfield, Mich.) and Timothy Wyrick (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A therapeutic support device includes a bladder having one or more independently inflatable compartments, each including a plurality of inflatable cells. When inflated, each inflatable cell forms a contact node that may support a user or another object disposed thereon. The inflatable compartments can be alternately inflated and deflated such that contact pressure c...