US Patent Issued to TurnCare on Sept. 22 for "Non-invasive apparatuses for mitigating pressure applied to a human body and associated systems and methods" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,900, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TurnCare Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Non-invasive apparatuses for mitigating pressure applied to a human body and associated systems and methods" was invented by Rafael Paolo Squitieri (Wilton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are apparatuses and systems for mitigating contact pressures applied to a human body by the surface of an object, such as a chair, bed, or table. A pressure-mitigation apparatus can include a series of chambers whose pressure can be individually varied. When placed between a patient and a contact surface, the pressure-mitigation apparatus can vary the...