US Patent Issued to Advance Research System on Sept. 30 for "Handheld microscope for cannulated surgical systems" (Minnesota, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,678, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Advance Research System LLC (Edina, Minn.).

"Handheld microscope for cannulated surgical systems" was invented by Hamid R. Abbasi (Edina, Minn.), Kenneth R. Barra (Dallas, Ga.) and Stuart J. Olstad (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld microscope for direct, optical viewing of surgical sites. The system includes an illumination system, as well as viewing optics contained in a housing, the housing being configured for coupling to a proximal end of an access port. In some embodiments, the access port houses a light probe coupled to a source of the illumination system for ir...