US Patent Issued to Alsteni Medical on April 14 for "Intraoral gastrointestinal access device and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,544, issued on April 14, was assigned to Alsteni Medical Inc. (Sierra Madre, Calif.).

"Intraoral gastrointestinal access device and related methods" was invented by Elizabeth Ogden Demetriades (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Todd Oda (Torrance, Calif.) and Nicholas George Demetriades (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various intraoral gastrointestinal access devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein to deliver substance directly to a target gastrointestinal tract site of a user while bypassing other portions of the gastrointestinal tract. The intraoral gastrointestinal access devices can be anchored within a mouth of a us...