US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 11 for "Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,605, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care" was invented by Krishna S. Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Daniel Brosnan (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Annie Desaulniers (Bothell, Wash.) and Ming Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system for providing improved guidance tools with respect to a patient support apparatus. A user interface is configured to receive inputs from a user, and an information output device is configured to provide instructions to the user. T...