US Patent Issued to The Government of The United States, as Represented by The Director of the Defense Health Agency on July 15 for "Surgical scope with removable lumen" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,159, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Government of The United States, as Represented by The Director of the Defense Health Agency (Ft. Detrick, Md.).

"Surgical scope with removable lumen" was invented by Matthew Alan Eastwood (Travis AFB, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable insert for an endoscope. The disposable insert includes a flexible shaft and a cap. The flexible shaft has a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending therebetween and is configured to be inserted into a lumen of an endoscope. The cap is operably coupled to the distal end of the flexible shaft and is configured to form a fluid-tight s...