US Patent Issued to Palliare on March 31 for "Leak detecting apparatus and a method for detecting a leak in a hollow organ or lumen in a human or animal body" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,212, issued on March 31, was assigned to Palliare Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Leak detecting apparatus and a method for detecting a leak in a hollow organ or lumen in a human or animal body" was invented by John O'Dea (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leak detecting apparatus (1) for detecting a leak and determining the size of the leak in a suture repaired site (5) of a hollow organ (3), for example, a stomach, in a cavity (7), for example, the peritoneal cavity of a subject comprises a first insufflator (12) for insufflating the hollow organ (3) with a first gas, and a second insufflator (14) for insufflating the cavi...