Patents by Inventor Michael T. Brubaker
Michael T. Brubaker 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).
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Publication number: 20240115439Abstract: A patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. Each handle assembly comprises a handle and a handle extension supporting the handle. The handle extension is configured to articulate relative to the frame from a stowed position to a use position such that the handle is adjacent to the frame in the stowed position and the handle is extended from the frame by the handle extension in the use position. The apparatus also includes a locking device comprising one or more locking elements configured to discretely lock and unlock the handle extension relative to the frame in the use position or the stowed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventor: Michael T. Brubaker
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Patent number: 11951055Abstract: A patient support apparatus supports a patient and includes a litter. A base is disposed below the litter. A lift mechanism is configured to move the litter and the base relative to one another between extended and collapsed positions. The lift mechanism includes first and second frame assemblies each including an outer frame member and an inner frame member arranged to move within the outer frame member. First and second rollers and first and second slide members are disposed between the outer and inner frame members. The first and second rollers are arranged to roll along at least one of the outer and inner frame members with a load exerted on the lift mechanism from the litter. The first and second slide members are arranged to slide along at least one of the outer and inner frame members with a load exerted on the lift mechanism from the base.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: William Ross Heneveld, Jr., Chad Conway Souke, Michael T. Brubaker, Mackenzie Van Loon
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Publication number: 20240065904Abstract: A patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. The handle assemblies comprise one or more handles to be manipulated by a user. The handles are capable of being adjusted to facilitate maneuvering of the patient transport apparatus, such as pushing/pulling the patient transport apparatus along a floor surface, lifting the patient transport apparatus over obstacles, loading the patient transport apparatus into an emergency vehicle, and/or unloading the patient transport apparatus from the emergency vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: Nathan Matheny, Michael T. Brubaker, Christopher Gentile, Ross T. Lucas
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Patent number: 11911542Abstract: A medical apparatus that includes an apparatus body that has a surface with an opening and a cover coupled to the apparatus body about an axis of rotation angled to the surface. The cover is operable to rotate about the axis of rotation to move between a first position wherein the cover closes the opening and a second position wherein the cover is moved to allow access to the opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael T. Brubaker, Nathan Wray Matheny, Kurosh Nahavandi
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Patent number: 11890235Abstract: A patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. Each handle assembly comprises a handle and a handle extension supporting the handle. The handle extension is configured to articulate relative to the frame from a stowed position to a use position such that the handle is adjacent to the frame in the stowed position and the handle is extended from the frame by the handle extension in the use position. The apparatus also includes a locking device comprising one or more locking elements configured to discretely lock and unlock the handle extension relative to the frame in the use position or the stowed position.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael T. Brubaker, Christopher Gentile
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Patent number: 11839572Abstract: A patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. The handle assemblies comprise one or more handles to be manipulated by a user. The handles are capable of being adjusted to facilitate maneuvering of the patient transport apparatus, such as pushing/pulling the patient transport apparatus along a floor surface, lifting the patient transport apparatus over obstacles, loading the patient transport apparatus into an emergency vehicle, and/or unloading the patient transport apparatus from the emergency vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Nathan Matheny, Michael T. Brubaker, Christopher Gentile, Ross T Lucas
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Publication number: 20230338209Abstract: A patient transport apparatus includes a support structure. The support structure includes a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. The handle assemblies include one or more handles to be manipulated by a user. The handles are capable of being adjusted to facilitate maneuvering of the patient transport apparatus, such as pushing/pulling the patient transport apparatus along a floor surface, lifting the patient transport apparatus over obstacles, loading the patient transport apparatus into an emergency vehicle, and/or unloading the patient transport apparatus from the emergency vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael Maurice Desjardins, Michael T. Brubaker
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Publication number: 20230320911Abstract: An emergency cot includes a litter frame, a base, and a lift assembly supporting the litter frame relative to the base. The lift assembly includes load bearing members pivotally coupled to the litter frame by head-end upper pivot connections and foot-end upper pivot connections and to the base by head-end lower pivot connections and foot-end lower pivot connections for raising or lowering the base or the litter frame with respect to the other. The foot-end upper pivot connections or head-end upper pivot connections are movable toward or away from the longitudinal axis of the litter frame to allow one end of the litter frame to be tilted upwardly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Chad Conway Souke, Christopher Gentile, Ross Timothy Lucas, Michael T. Brubaker
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Patent number: 11723816Abstract: A patient transport apparatus includes a support structure. The support structure includes a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. The handle assemblies include one or more handles to be manipulated by a user. The handles are capable of being adjusted to facilitate maneuvering of the patient transport apparatus, such as pushing/pulling the patient transport apparatus along a floor surface, lifting the patient transport apparatus over obstacles, loading the patient transport apparatus into an emergency vehicle, and/or unloading the patient transport apparatus from the emergency vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael Maurice Desjardins, Michael T. Brubaker
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Publication number: 20230201054Abstract: A patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure and at least one caster assembly coupled to the structure to facilitate movement of the structure along a floor. Each caster assembly comprises a wheel, an actuator moveable between three actuator positions, a steer lock assembly moveable by the actuator between a steer and non-steer locked state, and a brake assembly movable by the actuator between a braked and unbraked state. The brake assembly includes a plunger, a retainer coupled to the plunger, a brake pad for sliding movement along the retainer, and a brake biasing element disposed between the plunger and the brake pad to urge the brake pad away from the plunger such that movement of the actuator to place the brake assembly in the braked state simultaneously brings the brake pad into engagement with the wheel and slides the brake pad along the retainer to compress the biasing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: Mackenzie Van Loon, Michael T. Brubaker, Joshua Caleb Colvin
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Publication number: 20230173146Abstract: A medical apparatus that includes an apparatus body that has a surface with an opening and a cover coupled to the apparatus body about an axis of rotation angled to the surface. The cover is operable to rotate about the axis of rotation to move between a first position wherein the cover closes the opening and a second position wherein the cover is moved to allow access to the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Michael T. Brubaker, Nathan Wray Matheny, Kurosh Nahavandi
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Patent number: 11666494Abstract: An emergency cot includes a litter frame, a base, and a lift assembly supporting the litter frame relative to the base. The lift assembly includes load bearing members pivotally coupled to the litter frame by head-end upper pivot connections and foot-end upper pivot connections and to the base by head-end lower pivot connections and foot-end lower pivot connections for raising or lowering the base or the litter frame with respect to the other. The foot-end upper pivot connections or head-end upper pivot connections are movable toward or away from the longitudinal axis of the litter frame to allow one end of the litter frame to be tilted upwardly.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Chad Conway Souke, Christopher Gentile, Ross Timothy Lucas, Michael T. Brubaker
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Patent number: 11642263Abstract: A person support apparatus includes a base, a controller, and a barrier having at least one electrical device. The base includes mounting structures for releasably mounting the barrier to the base. A first electrical connector is in communication with the at least one electrical device and mounted to the barrier. A second electrical connector is in communication with the controller and mounted at one of the mounting structures for connection with the first electrical connector when the barrier is mounted to the base at the mounting structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Connor Feldpausch St.John, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, William Dwight Childs, Michael Harry Lau, Annie Désaulniers, Michael T. Brubaker, Richard A. Derenne, Justin Raymond, Michael Joseph Hayes, Jason John Connell, Christopher Scott Jacob
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Publication number: 20230115764Abstract: A patient support apparatus having a support structure with a primary support surface for a patient, and an extension manually movable by a user relative to the support structure from a stowed position to an extended position so that the extension provides auxiliary support for the patient in the extended position. A locking device is operable to releasably hold the extension relative to the support structure in the stowed position and the extended position. A release mechanism is operable to manipulate the locking device to release the extension for movement relative to the support structure, and is movable with the extension from the stowed position to the extended position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: Connor F. St. John, Christopher Gentile, Michael T. Brubaker, Kevin C. Kropp
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Publication number: 20230033438Abstract: A patient support apparatus that comprises a frame and a side rail mounted to the frame. The side rail comprises a side rail body and a pair of arms mounting the side rail body for rotational movement relative to the frame. The pair of arms has a pair of upper pivot connections connected to the side rail body and a pair of lower pivot connections for mounting to the frame. The upper pivot connections engage a timing link.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Brian J. Tessmer, Christopher Ryan Sweeney, Jeffrey C. Shiery, Michael T. Brubaker, Dickson J. Brubaker, Dan George Parker
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Patent number: 11554900Abstract: A medical apparatus that includes an apparatus body that has a surface with an opening and a cover coupled to the apparatus body about an axis of rotation angled to the surface. The cover is operable to rotate about the axis of rotation to move between a first position wherein the cover closes the opening and a second position wherein the cover is moved to allow access to the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael T. Brubaker, Nathan Wray Matheny, Kurosh Nahavandi
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Patent number: 11540963Abstract: A patient support apparatus having a support structure with a primary support surface for a patient, and an extension manually movable by a user relative to the support structure from a stowed position to an extended position so that the extension provides auxiliary support for the patient in the extended position. A locking device is operable to releasably hold the extension relative to the support structure in the stowed position and the extended position. A release mechanism is operable to manipulate the locking device to release the extension for movement relative to the support structure, and is movable with the extension from the stowed position to the extended position.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Connor F. St. John, Christopher Gentile, Michael T. Brubaker, Kevin C. Kropp
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Patent number: D973585Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Daniel V. Brosnan, Ross Timothy Lucas, Bradley Sommer, Justin Thomas McLouth, Michael T. Brubaker
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Patent number: D1005494Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Brandon David Naber, Kurosh Nahavandi, Nathan Wray Matheny, Michael T. Brubaker, Charles Louis Crouch, Jason James Wroblewski, Clifford Edwin Lambarth
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Patent number: D1024926Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Daniel V. Brosnan, Michael T. Brubaker, Ross Timothy Lucas, Justin Thomas McLouth, Bradley Sommer