ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,375, issued on March 24, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Modular auscultation device" was invented by William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minn.) and J. Peter Robinson (St. Helens, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auscultation device having a headset, a chest piece, and tubing connecting the chest piece to the headset. At least one connector disposed in the tubing between the headset and the chest piece and the at least one connector comprising a first female connector portion and a second male connector portion. The first female connector portion having a receiving cavity and a coll...