US Patent Issued to Stryker on March 25 for "Power transfer system with patient transport apparatus and power transfer device to transfer power to the patient transport apparatus" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,462, issued on March 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Power transfer system with patient transport apparatus and power transfer device to transfer power to the patient transport apparatus" was invented by Kevin M. Patmore (Plainwell, Mich.), Christopher Ryan Sweeney (Portage, Mich.), Chad Conway Souke (Vicksburg, Mich.), Daniel V. Brosnan (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Kurosh Nahavandi (Portage, Mich.), Annie Desaulniers (Bothell, Wash.), Alexey Titov (Redmond, Wash.), Jeffrey S. Dunfee II (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Aaron D. Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Krishna S. Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pow...