US Patent Issued to Stryker on Feb. 3 for "Thermal system with improved user interface" (Michigan, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,230, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Thermal system with improved user interface" was invented by Gregory S. Taylor (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Marco Constant (Johnson City, Tenn.), Gideon P. Brewer (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Robert Christopher Rusin (Richland, Mich.) and Christopher John Hopper (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal control unit for controlling a patient's temperature includes a fluid outlet for delivering temperature-controlled fluid to a patient, a fluid inlet for receiving the fluid back, a pump, a heat exchanger, a controller for controlling the heat exchanger, a patient...