US Patent Issued to W.O.M. WORLD OF MEDICINE on Sept. 16 for "Insufflation device and operating method that can be carried out therewith" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,046, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to W.O.M. WORLD OF MEDICINE GMBH (Berlin).

"Insufflation device and operating method that can be carried out therewith" was invented by Jan Bischof (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an insufflator with integrated flue gas extraction. Thanks to a novel valve regulation system, it is possible to direct the gas inflow through two tubes into the body cavity. The novel device also enables an improved pressure control of the body cavity, which leads to lower pressure variations in the body cavity and furthermore compensates higher leakage volume flows."

The paten...