US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 14 for "Patient support apparatus with adaptive user interface" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,356, issued on July 14, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus with adaptive user interface" was invented by Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Daniel Brosnan (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Janani Gopalkrishnan (Portage, Mich.), Darren G. Schaaf (Portage, Mich.), Christopher Gentile (Sturgis, Mich.) and Ross T. Lucas (Paw Paw, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus for patients. The patient support apparatus comprises a base and a litter supported by the base. The patient support apparatus also comprises powered devices that perform one or more predetermined functions on the pa...