ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,510, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).
"Device for percutaneous dilational tracheotomy" was invented by Ralf Schnell (Seligenstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To be able to prevent a situation in which, in percutaneous dilational tracheostomy, the guide catheter already inserted into the trachea can kink, a device for percutaneous dilational tracheostomy is disclosed which has a puncture needle, a guide catheter and a guidewire. The puncture needle has a ground tip at its distal end. The maximum external diameter of the puncture needle is smaller than the minimum internal diameter of t...