ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,508, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Preceptis Medical Inc. (Golden Valley, Minn.).
"Tube deploying system" was invented by Rudolf Andreas Deibel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Andrew N. Smith (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Paul M. Goudreau (Edina, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tube deploying system includes a nose assembly having a distal cutting edge and a tube. The distal cutting edge is configured to be manually advanced to pierce a membrane of a patient. A handle of the system includes a pull mechanism having a slider and a pull block and an actuation member having a distal end that couples to the distal cutting edge and a proxima...