US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on July 22 for "Systems and methods for mechanical displacement of an esophagus" (Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,802, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for mechanical displacement of an esophagus" was invented by Veeral M. Oza (Chicago), Adam Hensel (Gahanna, Ohio), Emile Daoud (Columbus, Ohio) and Nishaki Mehta (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example assembly for use with a vacuum system and an esophageal positioning device esophageal positioning device includes an introducer, in which the esophageal positioning device includes a handle, a first segment, a second segment and an articulation driving mechanism. The first segment being coupled to the handle. The se...