US Patent Issued to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION on July 21 for "Chest tube insertion device using endoscopic guide" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,848, issued on July 21, was assigned to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Chest tube insertion device using endoscopic guide" was invented by Hyun Koo Kim (Seocho-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a chest tube insertion device using an endoscopic guide, the device having a structure comprising: a tube insertion guide body which is made from a transparent or semitransparent synthetic resin material and which is introduced into the thoracic cavity of the human body while being flexibly bendable, an endoscopic tube disposed inside the tube insertion gui...