ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,703, issued on May 20, was assigned to Altrix Medical Inc. (Centreville, Va.).

"Method of using a medical device" was invented by Matthew Robert Shaker (Centreville, Va.) and Daniel Fleck (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using a medical apparatus includes a step of providing the medical apparatus. The medical apparatus is hand-held and enables operation of an initial-medical function or initial-state function. The medical apparatus is capable of accepting and operationally integrating into the medical apparatus the contents of an adaptor kit to enable a new medical function. Each adaptor kit includes at least ...