Patent ID: 8726908

Claim:
A contact pressure-mitigation support apparatus comprising: a base material; a pressure-mitigating contact portion including a plurality of independently pressurized relief chambers interconnected on the base material, wherein the independently pressurized relief chambers are configured in a geometric pattern that mitigates contact pressure between a support surface and a specific anatomic region of a user's body when pressure in the independently pressurized relief chambers is alternated and the specific anatomic region of the user's body is oriented over an epicenter of the geometric pattern; and a plurality of elevated side support portions interconnected on the base material, wherein the side support portions are configured to actively orient the specific anatomic region of the user's body over the epicenter of the geometric pattern; wherein the geometric pattern includes a first independently pressurized relief chamber that intersects the epicenter of the geographic pattern, and second and third independently pressurized relief chambers that collectively, but not individually encompass the first independently pressurized relief chamber.