US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 3 for "Patient transport apparatus with electro-mechanical braking system" (Michigan, Texas, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,337, issued on June 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient transport apparatus with electro-mechanical braking system" was invented by Charles Donald Baker Jr. (Portage, Mich.), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), William Dwight Childs (Plainwell, Mich.), Tyler Ethen (Portage, Mich.), Kirby M. Neihouser (Francesville, Ind.), Anish Paul (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Lavanya Vytla (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transport apparatus includes a base, a patient support deck, a plurality of wheels, a plurality of brakes, and an electro-mechanical braking system. The electro-mechanical brak...