US Patent Issued to STERIS Solutions on Aug. 4 for "Surgical tables" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,265, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to STERIS Solutions Ltd. (Leicester, Great Britain).

"Surgical tables" was invented by Matt Clayton (Lancing, Great Britain) and Mark Portlock (Lancing, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical table having a tabletop and a column for enabling at least a part of the tabletop to be rotatable about a trend axis extending in a transverse direction across the tabletop; and an actuator mechanism coupled between the movable framework and the column and arranged to raise and lower the movable framework and the trend axis relative to the column and to rotate the movable framework about the tr...