US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Attachment mechanism for medical device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,030, issued on Feb. 3.

"Attachment mechanism for medical device" was invented by Philip Johnson (Plymouth, Minn.), Ryan Kaveckis (Minneapolis) and Lawrence Wales (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment mechanism configured to couple to a receiving port of a bronchoscope, the attachment mechanism including an adapter segment having a tubular body having an inner lumen and distal end, where the distal end includes a plurality of axial slits positioned circumferentially around the distal end to define a flexible tab section, where the flexible tab section defined a recess within the inner lumen configured to receiv...