US Patent Issued on June 2 for "Video laryngoscope" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,427, issued on June 2.

"Video laryngoscope" was invented by Sujit Kumar (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a video laryngoscope (100) to perform the intubation process. The video laryngoscope (100) includes a handle (10), a blade (20), a display unit (30), and an attachment assembly (25). The handle (10) includes a camera housing (16) with an image sensor (161) and a light source (162) arranged therein. The image sensor (161) is attached to the handle (10) through a camera channel (15) to visualise the path of the endotracheal tube. The camera housing (16) has a deflector (18) to avoid the bl...