US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on April 29 for "System and method for determining position of a steerable assembly within tissue of an animal body" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,224, issued on April 29, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for determining position of a steerable assembly within tissue of an animal body" was invented by Hamidreza Marvi (Chandler, Ariz.) and Mahdi Ilami (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining position of a steerable assembly within tissue of an animal body utilizes an elongated body structure with an implement arranged at a distal end thereof, and a premagnetized material proximate to the distal end. A signal indicative of a length of insertion of the elong...