ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,535, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Load cell assembly for a patient support apparatus" was invented by Sujay Sukumaran (Portage, Mich.), Mehmet Ilker Koc (Kayseri, Turkey), Berkay Guncan (Kayseri, Turkey) and Michael John Olson (Kalamazoo, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support apparatus includes a support structure including a base, an intermediate frame, and a patient support deck and a lift mechanism for moving the patient support deck relative to the base. A plurality of load cells are interposed between the lift mechanism and the support structure to measure load about the pa...