US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 8 for "Energy storage device management for a patient support apparatus" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,213, issued on July 8, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Energy storage device management for a patient support apparatus" was invented by Michael J. Hayes (South Haven, Mich.), Daniel V. Brosnan (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Annie Desaulniers (Bothell, Wash.), Aaron D. Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Alexey Titov (Redmond, Wash.), Ming Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Krishna S. Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Kevin M. Patmore (Plainwell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that comprises a patient support apparatus and a unit being independent from the patient support apparatus. The patient support apparatus compris...