ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,040, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).
"Patient positioning" was invented by Farokh R. Demehri (Brookline, Mass.), Heung Bae Kim (Weston, Mass.), Brianna L. Slatnick (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert W. Crum (Brookline, Mass.), Kyle C. Wu (Boston), Alexander Yang (Boston) and Steven J. Fishman (Weston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proning device includes a conformable structure that adapts to the shape of a subject, surrounded by a shell that imparts a substantially elliptical or circular cross-sectional shape to an exterior of the device to facilitate rotation of the subject within...