US Patent Issued to ViOptix on June 23 for "Laparoscopic oximeter and protective sheath for the laparoscopic oximeter" (California, New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,203, issued on June 23, was assigned to ViOptix Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Laparoscopic oximeter and protective sheath for the laparoscopic oximeter" was invented by Alex Michael Margiott (Dunbarton, N.H.), Sean Gossin (Media, Pa.), Timothy Lee Sauder (San Francisco), Kevin Dunk (Casto Valley, Calif.), Scott E. Coleridge (New York) and Mark Lonsinger (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for housing a reusable portion of an oximeter device in a sheath includes providing the oximeter device as a probe unit and a laparoscopic tube separated from each other. The probe unit is handled by a first operator in a nonsterile ...