ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,899, issued on April 22, was assigned to RAMPART IC LLC (Birmingham, Ala.).
"Sterilizable cover" was invented by Robert Evans Foster (Birmingham, Ala.), Lloyd Guyton Bowers Cooper (Birmingham, Ala.), William Thomas Livingston (Birmingham, Ala.) and Foster D Phillips (Birmingham, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation shield assembly is described, configured to block radiation emanating from a radiation source from reaching a user. Two shields are supported by a support arm, and are configured to rotate and translate relative to one another about the support arm's longitudinal axis. This allows the shield to be easily configur...