US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 20 for "Patient support apparatus with mattress and mattress coupler" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,706, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus with mattress and mattress coupler" was invented by Emily Shira (Portage, Mich.) and David Scharich III (Coloma, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus is provided with a deck and a mattress. The patient support apparatus may include a mattress coupler to couple the mattress to the deck to limit, if not prevent, migration of the mattress relative to the deck."

The patent was filed on March 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/121,212.

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