US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park on Aug. 12 for "Percutaneous dilation tracheostomy device and method of using" (Maryland, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,686, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Maryland (Baltimore) and University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Percutaneous dilation tracheostomy device and method of using" was invented by Joseph Rabin (Silver Spring, Md.), Conor Bloomer (Exeter, N.J.), Paige Chan (Olney, Md.), Scott Kivitz (Olney, Md.), Peter Chen (Clarksburg, Md.) and Torrance Wang (Boyds, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an improved percutaneous dilation tracheostomy device. The device is configured to include all of the required components to perform a percutaneous tracheotomy. The device includes a ret...