US Patent Issued to CooperSurgical on Feb. 17 for "Illuminated suction device" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,610, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CooperSurgical Inc. (Trumbull, Conn.).

"Illuminated suction device" was invented by Jason Swift (Newburyport, Mass.), Matthew Traub (Andover, Mass.), James Pehl (Salem, N.H.), Adrienne Clark (Arlington, Mass.), Steven Meyer (Arlington, Mass.) and Kate Leslie (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction device comprising a suction tube configured to fluidly couple to a vacuum source and to provide suction at its distal end, an illumination assembly comprising at least one direct light source for emitting light to a target area, an elongated heat sink thermally coupled to the at le...