US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Sequential stylet" (Maryland, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,466, issued on June 23.

"Sequential stylet" was invented by Michael Peck (Rockville, Md.), Amir Fakhari (Potomac, Md.), Shuvodeep De (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Denis Alias (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Stylet device that allows for the articulation of tubing and provides a method for positioning of the tubing during intubation or other procedures while the tubing is located within a passage-way or lumen of a subject, such as an airway, organs, veins, intestines and the like. Where unique anatomical conditions are present in a subject, rendering standard intubation devices inadequate, the articulation capabilities o...