US Patent Issued to TurnCare on Feb. 24 for "Pressure-mitigation apparatuses designed for prompt discharge of fluid therefrom" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,277, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TurnCare Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Pressure-mitigation apparatuses designed for prompt discharge of fluid therefrom" was invented by Rafael Paolo Squitieri (Wilton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are pressure-mitigation systems able to mitigate the pressure applied to a human body by the surface of an object (also referred to as a "structure"). A controller device (or simply "controller") can be fluidically coupled to a pressure-mitigation device that includes a series of selectively inflatable chambers. When a pressure-mitigation device is placed between a human body and...