ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,371, issued on Sept. 29.
"Catheter placement device for urethral applications" was invented by Ali Osman (Beaumont, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable hand-held medical device includes a body having a gun-type formation that includes a barrel. A guide wire device is housed in the body and is configured to advance and retract through the barrel. The guide wire device carries a bundled arrangement including a video system, an illumination system to support the video system, a fluid irrigation line, and a guide wire mechanism. The bundled arrangement is packaged as a unit in an insertion tube. The tip section of the insert...