US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 14 for "Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,408, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care" was invented by Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Madhu Thomas (London, Canada), Christopher A. George (St. Thomas, Canada), Sujay Sukumaran (Portage, Mich.), Marko N. Kostic (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Alexey Titov (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system for providing customized user menus. The system comprises a patient support apparatus, a user interface configured to receive input from a user, and a display configured to display user me...