US Patent Issued to TurnCare on Sept. 1 for "Approaches to mitigating pressure applied to immobilized patients undergoing treatment by underlying surfaces and associated systems" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,936, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TurnCare Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Approaches to mitigating pressure applied to immobilized patients undergoing treatment by underlying surfaces and associated systems" 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 apparatuses able to mitigate the pressure applied to a human body by the surface of an object. A controller device 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 a su...