US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 8 for "Siphon protection and infection prevention of air-water tube end connector" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,741, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Siphon protection and infection prevention of air-water tube end connector" was invented by Aakash Deora (Marlborough, Mass.), Ryan Vincent William Pollock (Sterling, Mass.) and Scott Edward Corbeil (Litchfield, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for preventing leaks from an endoscope end of a tube set during equipment changes between endoscopic procedures. An illustrative system may comprise a storage case and a cap. The storage case may comprise a base including a plurality of wells, an insert disposed in each well of t...