US Patent Issued to CONMED on Sept. 29 for "Surgical suction device that uses positive pressure gas" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,935, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CONMED Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).

"Surgical suction device that uses positive pressure gas" was invented by Noah Mark Minskoff (Palo Alto, Calif.), James Jackson (Victoria, Canada), Elisabeth Jacques Leeflang (San Francisco) and Aaron Olafur Laurence Philippsen (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, and methods for generating a variable liquid vacuum with an accompanying stable gas flow rate. In particular, when a suction device suctions a liquid and gas mixture it is advantageous to provide a variable vacuum or vacuum to apply to the liquid componen...