US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on June 30 for "Adjustable liposuction cannula" (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,657, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Adjustable liposuction cannula" was invented by J. Peter Rubin (Pittsburgh), Arielle A. Richter (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Aaron T. Ledgerwood (Pittsburgh), Jessica C. Huynh (Philadelphia), Kacey G. Marra (Canonsburg, Pa.), Stephen Holland (Willoughby, Ohio) and Mark J. Gartner (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for removing fat from a body can include a pair of nested hollow members that each has at least one opening and an adjustment means for adjusting the orientation of the nested hollow members...