US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 13 for "Manifolds for a medical waste collection assembly and methods of collecting a tissue sample with the same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,087, issued on May 13, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Manifolds for a medical waste collection assembly and methods of collecting a tissue sample with the same" was invented by Michael Zollinger (Chelsea, Mich.) and Michael Peterson (Richland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manifold for collecting a tissue sample with a medical waste collection assembly. A base portion of a housing is removably engaged with a manifold receiver to provide a suction path from an inlet fitting receiving a suction line. A tray may be removably positioned within an accessory sleeve. Locating features facilitate defining a gap bet...