US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 27 for "Large capacity manifold for a medical/surgical waste collection system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,489, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Large capacity manifold for a medical/surgical waste collection system" was invented by Michael Peterson (Richland, Mich.), Anshul Shandillya (Agra, India), Stephen Isham (Mattawan, Mich.) and Stephen J. Reasoner (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manifold for a medical/surgical waste collection system. An outlet opening and a fitting are in fluid communication with a manifold volume within a housing. The fitting receives a suction line. A filter element with porous features is disposed within the housing such that a fluid communication path is e...