US Patent Issued to THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI on Sept. 1 for "Noise-reducing surgical aspirator" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,941, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Mo.).

"Noise-reducing surgical aspirator" was invented by Benjamin Jay Kirby (Columbia, Mo.), Ethan John Whitaker (Columbia, Mo.), Addison Diann Logsdon (Columbia, Mo.), Isabel Sidney Ives (Columbia, Mo.), Britton William Stamps (Columbia, Mo.) and Jackson Stephen Eisenhauer (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise-reducing surgical aspirator that includes a tube, a handle, having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a first internal fluid conduit, where the first end portion of the handle is attached to the tube in fl...