US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 21 for "Endoscope cleaning devices" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,434, issued on July 21, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Endoscope cleaning devices" was invented by Garrett P. Ebersole (Hamden, Conn.), Hari Naga Mahesh Kalepu (North Haven, Conn.), Shirisha Alampally (Hyderabad, India), Juan A. Gomez (North Haven, Conn.), Ryan S. Pane (Shelton, Conn.) and David T. Thompson (Durham, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope cleaning device includes a canister, a battery pack, a heating mechanism thermally coupled to the canister, and a pull tab. The canister has defogging solution stored therein for cleaning an endoscope upon insertion of the endoscope into the canister. A c...