US Patent Issued to Sage Products on Feb. 11 for "Apparatus and system for boosting, transferring, turning and positioning a patient" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,366, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Sage Products LLC (Cary, Ill.).

"Apparatus and system for boosting, transferring, turning and positioning a patient" was invented by Michael J. Rigoni (Cary, Ill.) and Paul M. Fowler (Cary, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable device includes a top sheet, a bottom sheet, a cavity formed by the top sheet and the bottom sheet, wherein the top sheet and the bottom sheet are coupled together along a peripheral edge, a port in communication with the cavity and with an exterior of the device, and a valve, including a pocket located in a cavity having an entrance opening and an exit openi...