ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,737, issued on April 14.
"Laryngoscope blade with a channel" was invented by Roland Kaddoum (Riad el-Solh, Lebanon).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a laryngoscope blade modification for endotracheal intubation. The disclosure provides a flexible channel attached to the laryngoscope blade or a rigid channel that opens via a spring system. The channel further incudes a slit along the entire portion of the channel, enabling a guidewire to be loaded into the channel and advanced to a patient's vocal cords and trachea before being dislodged or removed in a quick, efficient manner. An endotracheal tube is t...