US Patent Issued to Sage Products on May 13 for "Apparatus and system for boosting, transferring, turning and positioning a patient" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,897, issued on May 13, 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.), Garret W. Sweetwood (Lake in the Hills, Ill.), Paul M. Fowler (Rockford, Ill.), Gregory T. Davis (Woodstock, Ill.), Jeffrey A. Kennedy (Algonquin, Ill.), Paul H. Hanifl (Barrington Hills, Ill.), Craig S. Golden (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Mark D. Olson (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with an inflatable device includes an air output and a nozzle at a distal end of the air output. The nozzle includ...