US Patent Issued on March 11 for "Biliary drainage device for negative pressure-retrograde installation of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,151, issued on March 11.

"Biliary drainage device for negative pressure-retrograde installation of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage" was invented by Min Young Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biliary drainage device for negative pressure-retrograde installation of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (NR-PTBD) according to the present disclosure is in a pancreaticoduodenectomy process, the biliary drainage device including a flexible tube having a suction port formed at one side end and mounted on an afferent loop in order to suck bile; and a guide member installed at the other end of the tu...