US Patent Issued to Clarus Medical on July 15 for "Medical device inspection scope" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,164, issued on July 15, was assigned to Clarus Medical LLC (Minneapolis).

"Medical device inspection scope" was invented by Thomas Donald Chandler (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Steven Edward Lombardi (New Brighton, Minn.), Mark Francis Brown (Minnetonka, Minn.), Justin Andrew Hawley (Minneapolis) and Jerome Steven Stepanek (Eden Prarie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device inspection system includes a console and a flexible imaging scope. The console includes a housing, a video processor, a light source, a visual display on the housing, and an outlet with two ports. The flexible imaging scope is removably connected to the co...