US Patent Issued on July 7 for "Inline microgravity air trap device and an intravenous assembly incorporating an inline microgravity air trap device" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,170, issued on July 7.

"Inline microgravity air trap device and an intravenous assembly incorporating an inline microgravity air trap device" was invented by Arthur Formanek (Cambridge, Mass.), Mark Ottensmeyer (Watertown, Mass.) and Tovy Kamine (Portsmouth, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inline microgravity air trap device includes an elongate air trap chamber, the air trap chamber having a blind end, an opposite air outlet end containing a gas egress opening, a fluid inlet port connecting to a pressurized fluid supply, a fluid outlet port connecting the air trap chamber to a fluid delivery destination, a filter forming a tub...