US Patent Issued to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION on March 17 for "Anti-reflux valve for preventing gastroesophageal reflux disease" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,922, issued on March 17, was assigned to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Anti-reflux valve for preventing gastroesophageal reflux disease" was invented by Sung Soo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an anti-reflux valve for preventing gastro-esophageal reflux disease and includes a body formed in a ring shape and fixed to an upper end of a gastro-esophagus; a reflux blocking plate coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the body to be rotatable in one direction; and a fixing clip coupled to an outer circumferential surface of the bo...