US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 20 for "Patient support apparatus including a user module generating state indicators corresponding to monitored conditions and changes thereof" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,442, issued on May 20, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus including a user module generating state indicators corresponding to monitored conditions and changes thereof" was invented by Kurosh Nahavandi (Portage, Mich.), Jeffrey Alan Kennedy (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Placide Nibakuze (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and David James Buick (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus comprises a support structure, a user module, and a controller. The user module comprises a display and indicator panel that has a plurality of indicia, each associated with a monitored condition. First ligh...