US Patent Issued to Airway Medical Innovations on March 3 for "Laryngeal mask airway intubation guide and method" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,693, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airway Medical Innovations Pty Ltd (Fortitude Valley, Australia).

"Laryngeal mask airway intubation guide and method" was invented by Julio Miguel Alonso Babarro (Fortitude Valley, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laryngeal mask airway (LMA) intubation guide for use in an endotracheal intubation procedure and in ventilation of a subject, the LMA intubation guide including: an elongate body defining a passageway extending between a proximal opening and a distal opening, for receiving a blade portion of an intubation device; a laryngeal mask at the distal opening, for covering the laryn...