US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 1 for "Pedal assembly for a patient support apparatus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,293, issued on July 1, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Pedal assembly for a patient support apparatus" was invented by Tyler Joseph Ethen (Portage, Mich.), Anish Paul (Portage, Mich.), Joseph Adam Upchurch (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and William Dwight Childs (Plainwell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus includes a pedal assembly for selecting between a first state and a second state different from the first state, and comprising first and second pedals. The first and second pedals are configured to pivot together in a first rotational direction relative to a respective pivot axis to transition f...