ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,319, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Free standing auscultation device" was invented by Daniel J. Rogers (Grant, Minn.), William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minn.) and J. Peter Robinson (Lancashire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auscultation device having a chest piece with a sound output aperture in fluid communication with a diaphragm on a bottom surface of the chest piece. A digital stethoscope component with a sound input aperture and a connector fluidly connecting the sound output aperture to the sound input aperture. The connector is designed such that the a...