US Patent Issued to Stryker on March 25 for "Patient handling device including local status indication, one-touch fowler angle adjustment, and power-on alarm configuration" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,043, issued on March 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient handling device including local status indication, one-touch fowler angle adjustment, and power-on alarm configuration" was invented by David Terrance Becker (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Christopher John Hopper (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Michael Joseph Hayes (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Richard C. Mayoras Jr. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Vivek Shankar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient handling device includes a frame for supporting a patient, a controller, and two alert lights which are activated when a controller detects an alert situation, such as, but not lim...