US Patent Issued to Volz Surgical Consulting on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for maintaining patient position" (Minnesota, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,243, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Volz Surgical Consulting Inc. (Dakota Dunes, S.D.).

"Systems and methods for maintaining patient position" was invented by Lawrence T. Volz (Dakota Dunes, S.D.), Adam Troness (Dellwood, Minn.), Richard A. Thompson II (Saint Louis Park, Minn.), Jacob Wilson (Blaine, Minn.) and Ryan Lawrence Smith (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some systems, devices and methods detailed herein provide adjustable restraint device maintaining a selected position of a person relative to a support structure, for example, to maintain a safe and customizable patient position during a surgical procedure o...