ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,044, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).
"Patient repositioning sheet, system, and method" was invented by Alyssa Kurt (Trevor, Wis.), Morgan Uridil (Evanston, Ill.), Stephen Kaidantsis (Chicago), Vincent Hahn (Chicago) and Drew Phalen (Skokie, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a patient repositioning sheet including an inflatable sheet having a lower layer and an upper layer that are urged apart with inflation of the inflatable sheet. The patient repositioning sheet further includes at least one inflatable support, such as an inflatable wedge. ...