ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,388, issued on July 22, was assigned to Meditrina Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Medical devices and methods of use" was invented by Akos Toth (Cupertino, Calif.), Csaba Truckai (Saratoga, Calif.) and Tamas J. Truckai (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-use medical endoscope with an elongate shaft carrying a distal image sensor, with a flex circuit component having a distal end electrically coupled to the image sensor and a proximal tail end of the flex circuit extending outwardly from the endoscope handle to a flex circuit connector assembly."

The patent was filed on May 11, 2022, under Application No. 17/662,992....