US Patent Issued to TurnCare on March 18 for "Network-enabled systems for mitigating pressure applied to a living body by an underlying surface" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,346, issued on March 18, was assigned to TurnCare Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Network-enabled systems for mitigating pressure applied to a living body by an underlying surface" 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. A system can include a pressure-mitigation device with chambers whose pressure can be varied by a controller that regulates the flow of fluid produced by a pump. The controller may be deployed as part of a closed loop system that autonomously infer...