ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,518, issued on July 15, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Ambulance cot and loading and unloading system" was invented by Clifford Edwin Lambarth (Portage, Mich.), Chad Conway Souke (Vicksburg, Mich.), Kurosh Nahavandi (Portage, Mich.), Adam Darwin Downey (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Robert Gregory Cox (Portage, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ambulance cot loading and unloading system for an emergency vehicle includes a base for mounting in the emergency vehicle and an arm mounted for linear movement along the base, wherein the arm configured to support a cot while the cot is being loaded into or unloaded from the e...