ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,776, issued on June 10, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus for treating patients presenting behavioral health indicia" was invented by Lavanya Vytla (McKinney, Texas), Matthew A. Cutler (Portage, Mich.), Michael William Graves (Paw Paw, Mich.), Paul Mandruch Radgens (Vicksburg, Mich.), Christopher Ryan Sweeney (Portage, Mich.) and Madhu Sandeep Thota (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus for use in treating patients with behavioral health indicia. The patient support apparatus includes a support structure with a patient support deck defining a patient suppor...