ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,532, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Stretcher board of a patient couch" was invented by Konstantin Knodt (Erbendorf, Germany) and Berthold Baumann (Kastl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to a stretcher board of a patient couch. The stretcher board is configured to support a patient. The stretcher board includes a hollow body with a closed monolithic lateral area, the closed monolithic lateral area including an upwardly directed subregion defining a patient support surface, the patient support surface having an upwardly directed convex cu...