ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,162, issued on June 24, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).
"Medical weighing systems" was invented by Heidi Frances Hendrix (Brookhaven, Ga.), David Richard Rawlings (Cumming, Ga.), Sean Corrigan (Chicago), David B. Richmond (Fairfax, Va.) and David Davis (Herndon, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weighing system for medical applications may include a basin that has a base and a sloped sidewall that collectively form a bounded cavity with open top surface that receives and holds the material to be weighed. The basin may be free floating above the weighing device within a restricted range of travel. In some ...