ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,568, issued on April 15, was assigned to DRAGERWERK AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).
"Tilt resistant stand" was invented by Georgios Kokovidis (Waltham, Mass.) and Christopher Kokovidis (Waltham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilt resistant stand for medical devices may include a base with casters and an upright support with a mounting portion for a medical device. A stand for medical devices can be resistant to tilting by having a gravitational centroid that is substantially vertically aligned with the geometric centroid of the base for enhanced stability, where the gravitational centroid is defined as a combined center of g...