US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 12 for "Patient support with energy transfer" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,450, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support with energy transfer" was invented by Clifford Edwin Lambarth (Portage, Mich.), Chad Conway Souke (Vicksburg, Mich.), Michael Joseph Hayes (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Martin Plante (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system includes a patient support apparatus and a powered device mounted relative to the patient support apparatus and an electrical circuit to power the powered device, with the electrical circuit having a wireless power receiver to inductively couple to and transfer e...