ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,998, issued on June 23, was assigned to FemDx Medsystems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Oscillating endoscopic catheter for fallopian tube navigation" was invented by Albert K. Chin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Pei-Jie Cao (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A falloposcope intended for use with a hysteroscope to access, image, and collect samples from a patient's fallopian tube includes a cannula having an angled tip oriented to engage a fallopian tube os when the cannula is transcervically introduced to a patient's uterus through the hysteroscope. The catheter has a distal viewing tip configured to be advanced from a distal end ...