US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 29 for "Medical waste collection system for collecting medical waste during a medical procedure" (Michigan, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,320, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Medical waste collection system for collecting medical waste during a medical procedure" was invented by Brian MacLachlan (Norton Shores, Mich.), Brooke Mason (Mattawan, Mich.), Kenneth Lee Soliva (Madison, Wis.), Colin Vincent Beney (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and Sang Woo Nam (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for operating a medical waste collection system. The medical waste collection system includes a waste canister, a vacuum source, a user interface, and a controller. The controller operates the vacuum source so that an actual vacuum level d...