US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 30 for "Shield assemblies for use with patient support apparatuses" (Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,508, issued on June 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Shield assemblies for use with patient support apparatuses" was invented by Kevin M. Patmore (Plainwell, Mich.), Arthur Carlos Pallar Da Silva (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Carolyn Fahey (Middleborough, Mass.), Brandon Joseph Morse (Vicksburg, Mich.), Joshua Buck (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Steven Michael Murphy (Portage, Mich.), Ryan Thomas Slusarzyk (Byron Center, Mich.) and Mackenzie Van Loon (Mattawan, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shield assembly for providing a barrier adjacent to a patient disposed on a patient suppor...