US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 28 for "Techniques for detecting a force acting on a base of a patient transport apparatus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,663, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Techniques for detecting a force acting on a base of a patient transport apparatus" was invented by Joshua Alan Mansfield (Lawton, Mich.) and Chad Conway Souke (Vicksburg, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transport apparatus for use with a vehicle, comprising a lift mechanism between a base and a support frame to move between an extended configuration defining a first distance and a retracted configuration defining a second distance. An interface generates a user signal. A sensor generates a sensor signal corresponding to force acting on the base r...