US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK on Feb. 25 for "System and method for operating a ureteroscope irrigation device" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,703, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (Toronto).

"System and method for operating a ureteroscope irrigation device" was invented by Guan Hee Tan (Toronto) and Nathan Perlis (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irrigation device is integrated into a ureteroscope housing. The surgeon can increase flow of irrigation fluid by squeezing a compressible chamber of the irrigation device with the same hand used to hold the ureteroscope housing. A standard fluid bag and tubing can deliver irrigation fluid to the irrigation device."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2020, under Application No. 17/065,690.

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