US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 25 for "Patient care system with power management" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,618, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient care system with power management" was invented by Zane Marwan Shami (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Scott A. Kuebler (Delton, Mich.), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Madhu Sandeep Thota (Portage, Mich.) and Alexander Josef Bodurka (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, operating table, recliner, or the like, include a litter frame, a support deck, a battery, an AC connector for receiving electrical power, a plurality of motorized actuators, and a control system. The control system l...