ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,200, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for diagnosing gastro esophageal reflux disease" was invented by Haruhiro Inoue (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD), comprising: introducing an endoscope into a stomach of a subject; measuring a pressure in the stomach while supplying gas into the stomach using the endoscope; and determining whether the subject has GERD or not based on a maximum value of the pressure and a wave pattern of a value of the pressure."
The patent was filed on May 30, 2019, under Application No. 16/426,713.
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