US Patent Issued to Stryker on Nov. 11 for "Patient support apparatus with patient information sensors" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,290, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support apparatus with patient information sensors" was invented by Michael Joseph Hayes (Kalamazoo, Mich.), David Terrance Becker (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Annie Desaulniers (Bothell, Wash.), Aaron Douglas Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Brandon J. Buckingham (Middleville, Mich.), Michael W. Steffler (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Richard A. Derenne (Portage, Mich.) and Joshua Elmer Mix (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A person support apparatus includes sensors for monitoring aspects of a person positioned thereon. The outputs from the sensors are used to d...