US Patent Issued to Sage Products on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for lifting and positioning a patient" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,006, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sage Products LLC (Cary, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for lifting and positioning a patient" was invented by Curtis L. Hollabaugh (Cary, Ill.), Michael P. Flores (Cary, Ill.), Daniel R. Ulreich (Cary, Ill.) and Corey A. Bochat (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable device for lifting a patient includes an inflatable body having a top sheet and a bottom sheet attached along opposing side edges and forming at least one cavity there between, and a plurality of connecting members extending outwardly from the opposing side edges of the inflatable device. The inflatable device ...