US Patent Issued to Verathon on April 21 for "Dynamically retractable camera for video laryngoscope" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,059, issued on April 21, was assigned to Verathon Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Dynamically retractable camera for video laryngoscope" was invented by Jason Fouts (Bothell, Wash.), Avi Van Haren (Vancouver, Canada), Hugh Leung (Burnaby, Canada), Yongkook Kim (Port Moody, Canada), Ryan Neimy (North Vancouver, Canada) and Sergey Ovcharenko (Delta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a video baton for insertion into a plurality of laryngoscope blade covers having different sizes and geometries. The video baton comprises: a handle portion, a shuttle assembly slidingly positioned within the handle portion between an ex...