ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,016, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to EndoTheia Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).
"Method and apparatus for endoscopy" was invented by Joshua Gafford (Nashville, Tenn.), Jake Childs (Kingston, Tenn.), Laura Davis (San Ramon, Calif.), Daniel Caleb Rucker (Knoxville, Tenn.), Patrick Anderson (Nashville, Tenn.), Robert Webster (Nashville, Tenn.) and Scott Webster (Nashville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an endoscopic apparatus and associated methods. The apparatus may include a steerable tool having a first flexible tube concentrically nested within a second flexible tube. The apparatus may include an en...