US Patent Issued to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation on March 3 for "Ambulatory fluid drainage and collection device" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,669, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland).

"Ambulatory fluid drainage and collection device" was invented by Sean Nagel (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) and Sergey Samorezov (Highland Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly for controlled drainage or delivery of a fluid from or to a patient including an outlet, an inlet, a diaphragm chamber and a diaphragm dividing the diaphragm chamber into a first chamber cavity and a second chamber cavity. The diaphragm being deflectable toward a first wall of the diaphragm chamber wherein the first chamber cavity contracts and the second ch...