US Patent Issued to DyQure on Sept. 8 for "Apparatuses and methods to activate muscles of deglutition to promote dysphagia recovery in neurological disorders" (Missouri, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,221, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DyQure LLC (Sauk Rapids, Minn.).

"Apparatuses and methods to activate muscles of deglutition to promote dysphagia recovery in neurological disorders" was invented by Adnan I. Qureshi (Columbia, Mo.) and Muhammad Fareed Khan Suri (Sauk Rapids, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for treating dysphagia related to neurological disease, and promoting deglutition. The apparatus includes a tube with inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of a standard nasogastric/enteric tube, and can be advanced over the standard nasogastric/enteric tube platform through the oropharyn...