US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on Aug. 4 for "Manifold assembly" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,262, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Manifold assembly" was invented by Philippe Legros (Pluneret, France), Pascal Lemonnier (Locoal Mendon, France), Pierre-Yves Le Naour (Quimperle, France), Mikael Maho (Pluvigner, France), Anthony Thepaut (Pluneret, France) and Etienne Yvernault (Brech, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manifold assembly includes a manifold core defining an inlet tube, an outlet tube, a first projection configured to be fluidly coupled with a first bladder, and a second projection configured to be fluidly coupled with a second bladder. A connector is operably coupl...