US Patent Issued to Thermotraumaport on June 2 for "Heated stretcher" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,717, issued on June 2, was assigned to Thermotraumaport Ltd. (London).

"Heated stretcher" was invented by Mary Anne Cordeiro (London), Jeremy Mauger (Bury St Edmnds, Great Britain), Alastair Wilson (Harpley, Great Britain), Russell Overend (Langbank, Great Britain) and Stephen Mcintosh (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stretcher with an X-ray transparent heated section to inhibit patient hypothermia and facilitate X-raying the patient without having to move the patient off the stretcher. The heated section of the stretcher includes an electrically conductive layer including a sheet of electrically conducting and...