US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on May 13 for "Nasal airway device and kit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,097, issued on May 13, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Nasal airway device and kit" was invented by David Adam Zopf (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Allison Powell (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dian-Ru Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jeffrey Stephen Plott (Algonac, Mich.) and Albert J. Shih (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example nasal airway tube includes a tubular body having a distal end and a proximal end. A surface at the distal end including an opening. The tubular body having an overall curvature with a radius of curvature defined relative to a longitudinal axis of the tube. An X-axis is defi...