US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 28 for "Patient transport apparatus having an extender for a head deck section" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,042, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient transport apparatus having an extender for a head deck section" was invented by Bryan E. Garfoot (Portage, Mich.) and Trey Thomas Pfeiffer (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transport apparatus including a base, an intermediate frame, a support deck with a fowler section, and a deck extension assembly with a head deck section, a brace extending between a mount end and a coupling end, and a pivot coupling attached to the coupling end and supporting the head deck section. A mount operatively attached to the fowler section defines a re...