US Patent Issued to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Endoscope with keyed orientation feature" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,859, issued on May 26, was assigned to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Endoscope with keyed orientation feature" was invented by John C. Sigmon Jr. (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Shaun D. Gittard (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Liam Breen (Ballina, Ireland), Vincent McHugo (Birdhill, Ireland) and Jonathan Lupton (Thomasville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical device including a camera including a movable member including an outer surface with a longitudinally-extending cross-sectional geometry configured to complement a longitudinally-extending cross-sectional geometry of a surface of a lumen in an e...