US Patent Issued to Acclarent, Biosense Webster (Israel) on Jan. 13 for "Flexible sensor assembly for ENT instrument" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,997, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Acclarent Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) and Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Flexible sensor assembly for ENT instrument" was invented by Franklin D. Tarke (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Babak Ebrahimi (Irvine, Calif.), Uriel Hod (Haifa, Israel), Shubhayu Basu (Anaheim, Calif.), Alison D. Wright (Newport Beach, Calif.), Cesar Fuentes-Ortega (Pasadena, Calif.), Henry F. Salazar (Pico Rivera, Calif.) and Jetmir Palushi (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ENT surgical instrument includes a shaft assembly, a flexible substra...