ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,900, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to JohnDow Industries Inc. (Barberton, Ohio).

"Fluid evacuation collection vessel assemblies and fluid evacuation systems and methods" was invented by John H. Blackburn Jr. (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and John H. Blackburn (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for evacuating fluid from a reservoir including a vacuum source and a fluid extraction apparatus including an extraction device and a collection vessel assembly including a collection vessel, an extraction inlet in fluid communication with the extraction device, a vacuum source valve in fluid communication with the vacuum source a...