US Patent Issued to Stryker on Nov. 25 for "Patient transport apparatus for traversing stairs" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,524, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient transport apparatus for traversing stairs" was invented by Nathan W. Matheny (Portage, Mich.), Daniel V. Brosnan (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Melvin Gottschalk Jr. (Byron Center, Mich.), Cory P. Herbst (Shelbyville, Mich.), Brandon David Naber (Portage, Mich.), Kelly Sandmeyer (Mattawan, Mich.), Scott Zufall (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Trey Thomas Pfeiffer (Portage, Mich.), Patrick Grossman (Grand Haven, Mich.) and Tyler Wright (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transport apparatus for transporting a patient. A seat section is pivotably coupled to...