ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,903, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Preview function for continuous lateral rotation therapy" was invented by Richard H. Heimbrock (Cincinnati) and Robert M. Zerhusen (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus may include a patient support surface including a rotation device. A controller may be operable to control the rotation device. The controller may include a processor and a non-transitory memory device. The memory device may include instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate the rotation device to perform a rotation...