US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on July 29 for "Braking and steering system for a mobile support" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,096, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Braking and steering system for a mobile support" was invented by Neal Wiggermann (Batesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile support such as a stretcher includes a left rear rolling element and a right rear rolling element. The support also includes a sensor system adapted to sense displacement force applied to the support, and a deceleration system. Provided the bed is moving in a forward direction, machine readable instructions executed by a processor cause the deceleration system to apply a decelerating influence to selected members ...