ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,249, issued on May 6, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Case-specific fluid management" was invented by Polly Charlene Ma (Fremont, Calif.), Alexander J. Teague (Elmhurst, Ill.), Toni Divic (Stanford, Calif.), Sarah Plewe (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mouslim M. Tatarkhanov (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing fluid conditions in a patient involves advancing at least one medical instrument into a target organ of a patient, the at least one medical instrument comprising an irrigation channel and an aspiration channel, coupling the at least one medical instrument to an irrigati...