US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 5 for "Patient support systems with a chair configuration and a stowable foot section" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,004, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support systems with a chair configuration and a stowable foot section" was invented by Christopher Ryan Sweeney (Portage, Mich.), James K. Galer (Byron Center, Mich.), Gary L. Bartley (Kalamazoo, Mich.), William Dwight Childs (Plainwell, Mich.) and Connor Feldpausch St. John (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system comprises a patient support apparatus for patients. The patient support apparatus comprises a base and a litter supported by the base via a lift system. The litter comprises a seat section and a foot section mov...