ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,692, issued on May 27, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).
"Surgical drape for thermal treatment basin" was invented by Heidi Frances Hendrix (Atlanta), David Richard Rawlings (Cumming, Ga.) and Michelle Wilson (Caledonia, Miss.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drape for a piece of equipment used during a medical procedure may be formed of a flexible sheet of polymeric material. The flexible sheet can have a basin portion shape-indexed to a basin or reservoir of the piece of equipment over which the drape is intended to be draped. The flexible sheet can also have a side sheet portion connected to the basin porti...