US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 29 for "Cot fastening system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,098, issued on July 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Cot fastening system" was invented by Brandon David Naber (Portage, Mich.), Kurosh Nahavandi (Portage, Mich.), Michael T. Brubaker (Portage, Mich.), Charles Louis Crouch (Plainwell, Mich.), Clifford Edwin Lambarth (Portage, Mich.) and Jason James Wroblewski (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cot fastening system for fastening a cot to an emergency vehicle includes a frame configured for mounting to the floor of an emergency vehicle, which has a longitudinal axis and a cot loading direction along the longitudinal axis. The system includes a first ...