US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 29 for "Patient support apparatuses with data retention management" (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,449, issued on July 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatuses with data retention management" was invented by Bhavin Kapadia (Portage, Mich.), Michael K. Holloway (Willshire, Ohio) and Mark R. Bryant (LaOtto, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, recliner, etc. includes a support deck, one or more lifts, and a plurality of circuit boards. Each circuit board includes an associated controller and memory, as well as a set of data associated with that circuit board. One of the controllers, such as, but not limited to, a main controller is ada...