US Patent Issued to Stryker on Feb. 3 for "Patient repositioning apparatus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,241, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient repositioning apparatus" was invented by Martin W. Stryker (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Cory Patrick Herbst (Shelbyville, Mich.), Brian J. Tessmer (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Christopher Ryan Sweeney (Portage, Mich.) and Steven D. Pikaart (Byron Center, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient handling system comprising a patient support apparatus having a patient support surface, a component, and a force generating device inducing movement or assisting in movement of the component, and a sheet for covering at least a portion of the patient support surface, and the s...