US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 9 for "Person support apparatus with adjustable exit detection zones" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,845, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

"Person support apparatus with adjustable exit detection zones" was invented by Sujay Sukumaran (Portage, Mich.), Marko N. Kostic (Johnson City, Tenn.), Madhu Thomas (London, Canada), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Anish Paul (Portage, Mich.) and Christopher Alan George (St. Thomas, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A person support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, or the like, for a supporting an occupant includes an exit detection system that has, in some embodiments, multiple user-selectable zones. An alert is triggered when th...