US Patent Issued to Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, B.G. Negev Technologies and Application, at Ben Gurion University on Feb. 3 for "Device for unblocking and removing secretions from airways" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,379, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati), University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati) and B.G. Negev Technologies and Application Ltd., at Ben Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

"Device for unblocking and removing secretions from airways" was invented by Iris Gutmark-Little (Cincinnati), Ephraim Gutmark (Cincinnati), Yuval Cavari (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and David Katoshevski (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for unblocking and removing secretions from airways, including small airways, by applying oscillated air flow and acoustic vibrations, illustratively according to...