US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 28 for "Techniques for determining a pose of a patient transport apparatus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,045, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Techniques for determining a pose of a patient transport apparatus" was invented by Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Chad Conway Souke (Vicksburg, Mich.), Thomas Alan Puvogel (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Joshua Alan Mansfield (Lawton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transport apparatus comprising a support frame, a base, a bracket coupled to the support frame and comprising a channel being non-linear, a frame assembly coupled between the support frame and the base and comprising a slidable member disposed in the channel, the slidable member bein...