US Patent Issued to MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY FOR LIFE on April 14 for "System and method for avoiding leakage in endotracheal tube with single or double cuff" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,736, issued on April 14, was assigned to MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY FOR LIFE (Aalst, Belgium).

"System and method for avoiding leakage in endotracheal tube with single or double cuff" was invented by Kristof Braem (Aalst, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable cuff for an endotracheal tube system has a sealing component that is one or a combination of (a) a proximal one-directional valve configured to deflect with underpressure during the intubation procedure and contact the tracheal wall of a patient to provide sealing, (b) a distal one-directional valve configured to deflect with overpressure during the intubation procedure ...