US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 27 for "Techniques for transporting autonomous patient support apparatuses and medical equipment to an incident scene" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,613, issued on May 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Techniques for transporting autonomous patient support apparatuses and medical equipment to an incident scene" was invented by Brandon David Naber (Portage, Mich.), Scott Zufall (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Jeffrey S. Dunfee II (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transporting equipment modules to an incident scene with an comprises: determining an initial location of the incident scene; dispatching an ambulance loaded with the autonomous mobile response unit and a plurality of equipment modules to the initial location; determining a refined loc...