US Patent Issued to Palliare on Feb. 24 for "Leak control system for an insufflation system, and a method for minimising leakage from an insufflation system" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,497, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Palliare Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Leak control system for an insufflation system, and a method for minimising leakage from an insufflation system" was invented by Conor Creedon (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leak control system (26) for an evacuation system (12) of an insufflation system (1), for controlling leakage of insufflating gas from a vessel (5) of a subject being insufflated. An evacuation conduit (20) connects a Venturi vacuum creating device (14) to the vessel (5) through a pressure relief valve (27) operable from a closed state to an open state in response to a pr...