ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,378, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Stryker Corp..
"Patient support with lift assembly" was invented by Connor Feldpausch St. John (Kalamazoo, Mich.), William Dwight Childs (Plainwell, Mich.) and Gary L. Bartley (Kalamazoo, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus includes a frame supported relative to a floor, the frame configured to support a deck for supporting a patient thereon, and a lift assembly for raising or lowering the frame relative to the floor. The lift assembly includes lifting legs coupled to the frame and an actuator with a body and an extendible member. The actuator is mounted to one of t...