US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on Oct. 6 for "Device and method for providing a volume in a lumen" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,705, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Device and method for providing a volume in a lumen" was invented by Muneaki Miyasaka (Singapore), Jiajun Liu (Singapore) and Soo Jay Louis Phee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to provide a volume in a lumen for endoscopic procedures is provided. The device comprises a plurality of flexible tube linkages, said each flexible tube linkage having a distal end and a proximal end, an actuation and locking mechanism comprising an actuation wire, wherein the proximal end of the each flexible tube linkage is connected to the actuation and ...