US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 25 for "Patient support apparatuses with motion customization" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,617, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatuses with motion customization" was invented by Kurosh Nahavandi (Portage, Mich.), Placide Nibakuze (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and David Buick (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus includes a litter frame, a support deck, an actuator, a user interface, a transceiver, and a controller. The controller is adapted to limit the movement of the actuator to a first range of motion in the absence of receiving a motion limit message from an off-board device via the transceiver or from a local user interface on the patie...