US Patent Issued to CooperSurgical on March 25 for "Introducer sheaths for endoscopes and related methods" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,898, issued on March 25, was assigned to CooperSurgical Inc. (Trumbull, Conn.).

"Introducer sheaths for endoscopes and related methods" was invented by Thomas William Winegar (Trumbull, Conn.) and Rosemary Michelle Garofalo (North Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheath for inserting a cannula of an endoscope into a cavity of a patient is described herein. The sheath comprises an introducer, a support channel and a pull-tab. The introducer has an open end being sized and shaped to accept a tip of the cannula and a tip end adapted to be deflected in an outward direction by the tip of the cannula passing into the introduc...