US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 21 for "Patient support system including expandable patient support and control assembly with display having animations for instructing a user" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,078, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support system including expandable patient support and control assembly with display having animations for instructing a user" was invented by Bradley Sommer (Lagrange, Ohio), Seyed Behrad Ghodsi (Paw Paw, Mich.) and Andrew John Engelkemier (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support system is provided for use on a litter of a patient support apparatus. The patient support system includes an expandable patient support and a control assembly connectable to the expandable patient support. The control assembly includes a user interfa...