Patents by Inventor Ruth Harker

Ruth Harker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6487739
    Abstract: A moisture drying mattress comprises a cover that encloses an air cell mattress and a plurality of air channel mats. The cover has a top portion that is vapor permeable and liquid impermeable. The air cell mattress has a plurality of apertures between the air cells. The plurality of air channel mats have a base and are positioned beneath the air cell mattress and within pockets located in the interior of the cover on a bottom portion of the cover. The air channel mats have a plurality of projections extending upwardly from the base that support the air cell mattress in a spaced relation from the air channel mat base. The air channel mats communicate with an air pump that is selectively controlled by a controller to selectively supply a flow of air to any of the air channel mats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Crown Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventor: Ruth Harker
  • Patent number: 6474743
    Abstract: A wheelchair back support assembly is both lightweight and sturdy, is designed to be inexpensively retrofit to an existing wheelchair of tubular frame construction, is designed to comfortably support the back of wheelchair user's of different sizes and having different physical characteristics and also flexes and moves relative to the wheelchair in response to movements of the back, shoulders and arms of the wheelchair user to thereby provide comfortable dynamic support to the back of the wheelchair user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Crown Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Harker, Brian Cummings, Robert Sparacio, Jill Sparacio