US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 15 for "Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,087, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care" was invented by Darren G. Schaaf (Portage, Mich.), Anish Paul (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Krishna Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Daniel V. Brosnan (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system comprises a patient support apparatus for patients. The patient support apparatus also comprises an actuatable device that perform one or more predetermined functions on the patient support apparatus. A controller is provided to...