US Patent Issued to Sage Products on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus and system for turning and positioning a patient" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,291, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sage Products LLC (Cary, Ill.).

"Apparatus and system for turning and positioning a patient" was invented by Paul M. Fowler (Rockford, Ill.) and Craig S. Golden (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with a bed having a frame and a supporting surface includes a sheet having a bottom surface configured to be placed above the supporting surface and a top surface opposite the bottom surface, and a wedge having a wedge body with a base wall, a ramp surface, and a back wall, wherein the base wall has a base engagement member configured to engage a surface of the bed...