ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,373, issued on April 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Techniques for notifying persons within a vicinity of a patient support apparatus of a remote control function" was invented by Anuj Sidhu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Alexander Bodurka (Portage, Mich.), Akash Agrawal (Maharashtra, India), Brajesh Kumar (Aligarh, India), Sachin Pachauri (Hathras, India) and Chandra Bhanu Vats (Darbhanga, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus and a method of notifying persons within a vicinity of the patient support apparatus are disclosed. The patient support apparatus includes a patient support structure for s...