US Patent Issued to Cornell University on Aug. 18 for "Self collapsing feeding tube with cleaning mechanism" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,591, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Self collapsing feeding tube with cleaning mechanism" was invented by Rasa Zarnegar (New York), Thomas Ciecierega (Wyckoff, N.J.), Carl Crawford (New York), Brendan Finnerty (New York) and Thomas Fahey III (Larchmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device, such as a feeding tube, may have one or more pullout resistors that can anchor the delivery device to a patient's abdomen. When implanted, the pullout resistors can lie between the small intestine and intraabdominal wall. The pullout resistors can prevent inadvertent retrograde displacement ...