US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 17 for "Patient/invalid handling support with immersion sensing" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,700, issued on June 17, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient/invalid handling support with immersion sensing" was invented by Patrick Lafleche (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Jean-Francois Girard (Trois-Rivieres, Canada) and Sylvain LaCasse (Saint-Romuald, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support includes a mattress with an inflatable bladder, where the inflatable bladder has a cavity and an upper bladder wall forming an outwardly facing side for facing and supporting the patient on the patient mattress and forming an inwardly facing side facing into the cavity. The patient support further includes a light tran...