US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Nov. 4 for "Training simulator for direct laryngoscopy" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,708, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Training simulator for direct laryngoscopy" was invented by Steven L. Orebaugh (Pittsburgh) and James V. Snyder (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples of a training simulator for direct laryngoscopy, which reproduce the dynamics of the human airway and hyoid bone movement observed in the human anatomy during movement of the somatic skeleton and direct laryngoscopy procedures. Training simulators can include a skeleton structure having a styloid process analogue, a mandible analogue, a...