US Patent Issued to IDEATE Medical on March 31 for "Port connectors" (American, Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,801, issued on March 31, was assigned to IDEATE Medical Inc. (St. Louis).

"Port connectors" was invented by Tom Hacker (Hood River, Ore.), Philippe Conseil (Montaigu-Vendee, France), William Wong (Encinitas, Calif.) and Florencia Chicatun (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to port connectors for sterilizing the exposed surfaces of a fluid port of an article to be sterilized to a sterilization apparatus. The port connector can include a housing that couples to the fluid port. The housing may define an inlet that fluidly couples to the fluid port, an outlet that fluidly couples to the ...