US Patent Issued to Stryker on March 4 for "Waste collection system with controllers for regulating levels of vacuum drawn on a waste container" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,775, issued on March 4, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Waste collection system with controllers for regulating levels of vacuum drawn on a waste container" was invented by Stephen J. Reasoner (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Bruce Henniges (Galesburg, Mich.), Steven Carusillo (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Brian MacLachlan (Norton Shores, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste collection system for collecting medical waste. A mobile rover includes at least one waste container, and a rover controller. A chassis is removably couplable with the mobile rover and includes a vacuum regulator, and a chassis controller. The chassis contro...