US Patent Issued to Georgetown University on Dec. 30 for "Portable folding infant radiant warmer" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,154, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Portable folding infant radiant warmer" was invented by Morarji Peesay (Germantown, Md.) and Prasad Muddam (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable, foldable, and manually transportable infant radiant warmer. In a collapsed configuration, the warmer consumes a minimal amount of space and can be manually transported easily. In a deployed configuration, the warmer provides open access to an infant lying on a bed platform for receiving resuscitative therapy and warmth from a radiant heater disposed upon an adjacent mast. The reconfigurable in...