US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 20 for "Patient support apparatus for sensing and responding to an emergency event" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,705, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus for sensing and responding to an emergency event" was invented by Madhu Sandeep Thota (Portage, Mich.) and Charles Donald Baker Jr. (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus is provided for sensing and responding to an emergency event. The patient support apparatus includes a plurality of actuators to lift and lower a patient relative to a floor surface and to articulate one or more deck sections. An activator is coupled to the support structure to be actuated by a user to signal the emergency event. A p...