US Patent Issued to ViOptix on Sept. 22 for "Wireless oximeter probe with elongated tube" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,730, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ViOptix Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Wireless oximeter probe with elongated tube" was invented by Kate LeeAnn Bechtel (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Todd Louis Harris (Fremont, Calif.), Edward Gerald Solomon (Menlo Park, Calif.), Winston Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Alan Baldwin (San Jose, 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 laparoscopic medical device includes an oximeter sensor at its tip, which allows the making of oxygen saturation measurements laparoscopically. The device can be a unitary design, wherein a laparoscopic element incl...