ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,084, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Phagenesis Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).
"Catheter for recovery of dysphagia" was invented by Conor Mulrooney (Manchester, Great Britain) and Veronika Matei-Rascu (Manchester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for assisting a patient with recovery from dysphagia are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the device comprises a catheter with sections whose curvatures correspond to curves between external nares of the patient and a nasal cavity and between the nasal cavity and a nasopharynx. The device may further include an electrode at a distal portion of th...