ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,326, issued on March 24, was assigned to QAELON MEDICAL (Strasbourg, France).
"Method and system for automatically detecting a clinically relevant leak" was invented by Lee Swanstrom (Cabris, France), Michele Diana (Saverne, France), Bruno Mutet (Haguenau, France) and Eran Shlomowitz (North York, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically detecting a clinically relevant leak and/or inadequate closure following a medical procedure, in a hollow organ residing in the interior volume of a body cavity. The test method includes the steps of: injecting, via an adapted injection element, a specific test gas or a gas mi...