US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 27 for "Patient support formed from an elastomeric composition including a polymer blend of seeps copolymers" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,609, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support formed from an elastomeric composition including a polymer blend of seeps copolymers" was invented by Patrick Lafleche (Kalamazoo, Mich.), James K. Galer (Byron Center, Mich.) and Matthew Ward (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a person support formed from an elastomeric composition. The elastomeric composition includes a polymer blend with the polymer blend consisting essentially of a first and second SEEPS copolymer. The first and second SEEPS copolymers are present in the polymer blend in an amount...