US Patent Issued to EXCITUS MEDICAL AS on June 3 for "Arrangements and methods for avoiding spreading of infectious agents and improving electric safety and suction performance of a medical aspirator" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,343, issued on June 3, was assigned to EXCITUS MEDICAL AS (Tromsdalen, Norway).

"Arrangements and methods for avoiding spreading of infectious agents and improving electric safety and suction performance of a medical aspirator" was invented by Oyvind Tjolsen (Stavanger, Norway), Terje Bondhus (Stavanger, Norway) and Per Reidar Orke (Hafrsfjord, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vacuum pump (18) for a medical aspirator (10), the pump (18) comprising a tubular member (20); a piston (22) slidably arranged within the tubular member (20); a piston rod (24) connected to the piston (22); and a coupling mechanism (36) for detachably and f...