ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,204, issued on July 15, was assigned to ViOptix Inc. (Newark, Calif.).
"Medical device and sheath seal and seal verification" was invented by Stephen Matthew Kmak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Robert James Mosley (San Jose, Calif.), David Keith Hohl (Milpitas, Calif.), Willem-Jan Ouburg (San Leandro, Calif.), Timothy Lee Sauder (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alan Baldwin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oximetry device includes an inductive detector. When the oximetry device is sealed in a sheath and a latch of the sheath is in a latched position, the inductive detector inductively detects that latch. The oximeter device use...