US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 19 for "Patient support apparatuses with displays" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,302, issued on May 19, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatuses with displays" was invented by Sujay Sukumaran (Portage, Mich.), Madhu Thomas (London, Canada), Tracy Leanne Fried (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Seyed Behrad Ghodsi (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus includes a support surface adapted to support a person, a display, a plurality of controls, a memory, and a controller. The controller is adapted to collect a batch of data regarding the operation of the patient support apparatus, to store the batch of data in the memory, to update the contents of the batch ...