Patents by Inventor Eugene Keller

Eugene Keller 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).

  • Patient support
    Patent number: 9381125
    Abstract: The present invention provides a patient support that can be configured in an expanded configuration, for example to accommodate larger patients, and then reconfigured to a more compact configuration to ease maneuverability of the patient support through constricted passageways in a facility and/or to provide a low height patient support. Further, the present invention provides a barrier around the patient support surface which includes a panel that allows a patient to see through the barrier and which is optionally adaptable to change its transparency and/or color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Cory P. Herbst, Martin W. Stryker, James T. Thwaites, Richard A. Derenne, Christopher S. Hough, Eugene Keller
  • PATIENT SUPPORT
    Publication number: 20130227787
    Abstract: The present invention provides a patient support that can be configured in an expanded configuration, for example to accommodate larger patients, and then reconfigured to a more compact configuration to ease maneuverability of the patient support through constricted passageways in a facility and/or to provide a low height patient support. Further, the present invention provides a barrier around the patient support surface which includes a panel that allows a patient to see through the barrier and which is optionally adaptable to change its transparency and/or color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: STRYKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cory P. Herbst, Martin W. Stryker, James T. Thwaites, Richard A. Derenne, Christopher S. Hough, Eugene Keller
  • Patient support apparatus
    Publication number: 20060031990
    Abstract: A patient support apparatus having a base, a litter frame, an elevation mechanism interconnecting the base to the litter frame and being configured to effect changes in elevation of the litter frame relative to the base. The litter frame includes a pair of laterally spaced and longitudinally extending support rails and a plurality of laterally extending support rails interconnecting the longitudinally extending support rails so that the litter frame has a rectangular configuration. Selected ones of the laterally extending support rails are mounted to the elevation mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Stanley Palmatier, Richard McDaniel, Jeffrey Shiery, Michael Petrowski, William Childs, Jerry Wheeler, Alfred Dacey, Eugene Keller