ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,979, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Video laryngoscope with window for infrared pairing" was invented by Michael Ng (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Peter Douglas Colin Inglis (Bouder, Colo.) and Jurgen Van Vlem (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video laryngoscope including a display portion, a handle, and a camera assembly. The display portion includes a housing having a patient-facing side and a user-facing side. A display screen is disposed on the user-facing side and configured to display images captured by the camera assembly. An infrared window is disposed at another position on ...