US Patent Issued to Richard Patterson on June 23 for "Automated home health patient care system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,284, issued on June 23, was assigned to Richard Patterson (Hutto, Texas).

"Automated home health patient care system" was invented by Richard A. Patterson (Hutto, Texas) and Roy M. Patterson (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer device comfortably picks up a patient from a bed, then moves to the side of the bed for offloading the patient onto an accessory such as a chair. The bed has rails which act as tracks to engage a roller base of the transfer device, and lead screws for automating sideways movement of the device. The device uses a lifting system having strap storage at the head of the frame and web storage at ...