ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,698, issued on March 3.

"Patient insufflation systems and methods" was invented by Hollie Sanders (Bessemer, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oxygen insufflation device can include proximal, intermediate, and distal tubes in fluid communication. The proximal end of the proximal tube can include a first tube that can be coupled to a first oxygen source and a second tube that can be coupled to a second oxygen source. The first and second tubes can be coupled to a y-coupler, which can couple to the intermediate tube at a distal end of the y-coupler. Check valves can be provided between each of the first tube and second tube and th...