US Patent Issued to AIRWAY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS on March 4 for "Apparatus for enabling blind endotracheal tube or guide wire insertion into the trachea" (Maryland, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,787, issued on March 4, was assigned to AIRWAY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Apparatus for enabling blind endotracheal tube or guide wire insertion into the trachea" was invented by Robert Michael Meadows (San Antonio), Rocco Carl Conca (Raleigh, N.C.) and Uriah Shane Popp (Havre de Grace, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intubation assistance device facilitates insertion of an endotracheal tube or a guide wire into a patient's trachea without requiring a laryngoscope. The device includes a curved flexible tubular member that has a proximal portion having a proximal end, a distal portion having a distal end, and a c...