ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,242, issued on June 30, was assigned to TJLE SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA (Olsztyn, Poland).

"Insertion device" was invented by Lukasz Lebiedzinski (Olsztyn, Poland), Pawel Sadlo (Cracow, Poland), Michal Brzezanski (Cracow, Poland), Marek Szczypczyk (Cracow, Poland), Michal Pyteraf (Cracow, Poland), Damian Dziedzic (Cracow, Poland), Konrad Sierotowicz (Cracow, Poland), Jakub Szczerbuk (Olsztyn, Poland), Tien-Ho Huang (Olsztyn, Poland), Kamil Sumera (Cracow, Poland) and Grzegorz Biernacki (Brzezie, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insertion device including a handle, a flexible shaft elongated at least in part with ...