US Patent Issued on July 1 for "Device for collection of excess fluids from an endoscope" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,986, issued on July 1.

"Device for collection of excess fluids from an endoscope" was invented by Waihong Chung (East Providence, R.I.) and Paul Akerman (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to safely collect any fluid discharged through the biopsy cap into another container without contaminating the surrounding environment. A device that can be attached to an endoscope in order to collect any fluid discharged through an external opening of an endoscope's internal channel."

The patent was filed on July 9, 2021, under Application No. 17/371,171.

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