US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 25 for "Techniques for patient pressure injury prevention" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,065, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Techniques for patient pressure injury prevention" was invented by Samuel Mansfield (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Katia Obraczka (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for patient pressure injury prevention (PPIP) include receiving, from a plurality of pressure sensors configured to be disposed in a spatial arrangement in contact with a patient, samples that indicate pressure measurements by the plurality of sensors at each of a plurality of different times. At each of the plurality of different times an angular...