ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,057, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Patient support apparatuses with dynamic control panels" was invented by Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Cory Patrick Herbst (Shelbyville, Mich.) and Anish Paul (Portage, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, recliner, operating table, stretcher, or the like, includes a control panel with multiple controls for controlling functions of the patient support apparatus. A control system disables at least a first control and changes an illumination state of a backlight when the patient support apparatus is in a ...