US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on June 23 for "Method for intubating patient with magnetic bougie system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,465, issued on June 23, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for intubating patient with magnetic bougie system" was invented by Abdulrahman Athwan S. Alqarni (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Khalid Mohamad Morsy Ibraheem (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intubating a patient with a magnetic bougie system is provided. The method includes inserting a bougie through an oral cavity of the patient and advancing the bougie to a trachea of the patient. The method further includes attracting a metal tip of the bougie to a magnet. The magnet is positioned externally ...