US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 5 for "Patient support apparatus control systems" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,005, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus control systems" was invented by Krishna S. Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Madhu Thomas (London, Canada), Christopher A. George (St. Thomas, Canada), Sujay Sukumaran (Portage, Mich.), Ammon K. Wright (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Marko N. Kostic (Johnson City, Tenn.), William Dwight Childs (Plainwell, Mich.) and Richard A. Derenne (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus including a support deck with a support surface and a deck section configured to move between a first position and a second position, a barrier t...