ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,229, issued on Oct. 14.
"Kidney stone suction tube device and related methods of use" was invented by Robert W. Reagan Jr. (Clinton, N.C.) and Stephen Loehr (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter described herein includes a kidney stone suction tube device and related methods of use. According to one example, the disclosed subject matter includes a suction tube device comprising a flexible tubing element comprising a modified suction tube portion characterized as having U-shaped hollow lumen channel and an intra-renal portion characterized as having circular shaped lumen channel. The intra-renal portion ...