US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on April 14 for "Anti-fouling endoscopes and uses thereof" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,865, issued on April 14, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. (Boston).

"Anti-fouling endoscopes and uses thereof" was invented by Joanna Aizenberg (Boston), Steffi Sunny (Cambridge, Mass.), Nicolas Vogel (Erlangen, Germany), Adnan Majid (Boston), George Cheng (Boston) and Michael Aizenberg (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent repellent, liquid-infused coating applied onto the distal end of an endoscope that prevents vision loss and reduces fouling is described. Also described is a disposable endoscope window that is coated in a tran...