US Patent Issued to Stryker on Dec. 23 for "Manifold for filtering medical waste being drawn under vacuum into a medical waste collection system and related methods" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,242, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Manifold for filtering medical waste being drawn under vacuum into a medical waste collection system and related methods" was invented by Andy Staats (Issaquah, Wash.), Brian MacLachlan (Norton Shores, Mich.), Grant Westphal (Delton, Mich.) and Stephen J. Reasoner (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a surgical waste collection manifold with a volume collected datum and a rover type to ensure compatibility with a surgical waste collection rover is provided. The method includes obtaining a second manifold having a second hous...