US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 25 for "Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,938, issued on Aug. 25, 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.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system for providing improved guidance and/or troubleshooting 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. A controller determines a guidance protocol for the user based on the inputs. The guidance protocol comprises user-performed acti...