US Patent Issued on Dec. 16 for "Esophageal food bolus dislodger device and method of using same" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,096, issued on Dec. 16.

"Esophageal food bolus dislodger device and method of using same" was invented by Paul Hagan Jr. (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An esophageal food bolus dislodger (EFBD) device and method of using same is disclosed. For example, an EFBD device is provided that may include an esophageal catheter that has a distal guidance member, and also including a cone member, an inflation member, and a boring member arranged along the esophageal catheter in advance of the distal guidance member. In EFBD device, the combination of the inflation member in a partially or fully deployed state, the cone memb...