US Patent Issued to MY VILLAGE INNOVATIONS on Oct. 27 for "Single-use vaginal speculum systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,109, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MY VILLAGE INNOVATIONS INC (Encinitas, Calif.).

"Single-use vaginal speculum systems and methods" was invented by Andrea Munoz (Encinitas, Calif.), Alfonso Munoz (Encinitas, Calif.), David Morelock (Escondido, Calif.), Brian Bowman (Carlsbad, Calif.), Maisha Zaman (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Benjamin Arnold (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are speculum embodiments and related methods to comfortably dilate a woman's vaginal canal during a pelvic exam. In one aspect, a flute having retractable rods and foldable rings are provided. The flute is configured to transition between an exp...