US Patent Issued to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Sept. 9 for "Pharynx aspiration device for minimizing infectious particle exposure during endonasal surgeries" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,922, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York).

"Pharynx aspiration device for minimizing infectious particle exposure during endonasal surgeries" was invented by Turner Baker (New York), Alfred Marc Iloreta (New York), Alexis Bruhat (New York), Raj Shrivastava (New York) and Anthony Costa (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for minimizing infectious particle exposure during endonasal surgeries includes the steps of: introducing an aspiration device through a mouth of a patient and positioning a distal tip within the nasopharynx space, the aspiration device comprising an elon...