US Patent Issued to CooperSurgical on July 7 for "Endoscopic devices and related methods" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,762, issued on July 7, was assigned to CooperSurgical Inc. (Trumbull, Conn.).

"Endoscopic devices and related methods" was invented by James F. Podpolucha (Milford, Conn.) and Richard I. Farrington (Waterbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic device includes a single-use cannula configured for insertion through a cervix into a uterus, a camera secured to a distal end region of the single-use cannula for acquiring images of the uterus, a connection hub secured to a proximal end region of the cannula, a reusable display configured to present the images acquired by the camera and that is securable to the connection hub,...