ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,107, issued on July 29, was assigned to TurnCare Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Network-accessible controllers for managing pressure-mitigation devices and approaches to incorporating the same into existing infrastructure" was invented by Rafael Paolo Squitieri (Wilton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are pressure-mitigation systems able to mitigate the pressure applied to a human body by the surface of an object (also referred to as a "structure"). A controller device (or simply "controller") can be fluidically coupled to a pressure-mitigation device that includes a series of selectively inflatable chambers. When a ...