US Patent Issued to Hoyt Medical on March 17 for "Endotracheal tube adapters" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,228, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hoyt Medical LLC (Sunfish Lake, Minn.).

"Endotracheal tube adapters" was invented by Hoyt Nye (Sunfish Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endotracheal tube adapter includes a body, an outlet at a first longitudinal end of the body, a first inlet at a second longitudinal end of the body, a second inlet on a first lateral side of the body, and a plurality of ribs on a second lateral side of the body opposite of the second inlet, the plurality of ribs extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the body. The outlet is configured to attach to a vacuum source for drawing (i) a first po...