US Patent Issued to Stryker on April 15 for "Exercise device and patient support apparatus" (Michigan, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,652, issued on April 15, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Exercise device and patient support apparatus" was invented by Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Celso Henrique Farnese Pires Pereira (Portage, Mich.), Jeffrey Kennedy (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Kaitlin Therese Konopacz (Lake Zurich, Ill.) and Heather Sirianni (Aliso Vieso, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exercise device includes one or more connectors adapted to be releasably coupled to a patient support apparatus; a patient-contacting portion adapted to contact a portion of the patient's body and to be resistively moved between a first position...