ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,464, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Trajectory guide with double x-y sliding tables" was invented by Robert E. Jones (McKinney, Texas) and Galen L. Smith (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory guiding apparatus and one or more methods associated therewith for facilitating precision-guided alignment and implantation of a DBS therapy device in a patient. A base plate and base frame combination provides a platform for a dual-stage slider (DSS) assembly comprising a bottom stage slider (BSS) table and a top stage slider (TSS) table that each have suitably sized a...