US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 23 for "Patient transport apparatus base with trolley for removable litter" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,282, issued on June 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient transport apparatus base with trolley for removable litter" was invented by Shawn Trimble (Portage, Mich.), Christopher Gentile (Sturgis, Mich.), John Pacelli (Allegan, Mich.), Justin Thomas McLouth (Portage, Mich.) and Scott Michael Batzer (Plainwell, 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 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 t...