US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 2 for "Patient transport apparatus with articulable powered litter" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,716, issued on June 2, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient transport apparatus with articulable powered litter" was invented by Shawn Trimble (Portage, Mich.) and Christopher Gentile (Sturgis, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transport apparatus for patients. The patient transport apparatus comprises a base having a base frame and an intermediate frame. The patient support further comprises a litter configured to be docked to and undocked from a trolley that is configured to slidably translate along the intermediate frame between a plurality of positions including a trolley forward position and a tro...