ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,001, issued on March 25, was assigned to Arrinex Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Devices and methods for treating a nerve of the nasal cavity using image guidance" was invented by Vahid Saadat (Atherton, Calif.), William Jason Fox (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mojgan Saadat (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention disclosed here generally relates to devices used to identify the location of a never in order to modify a property of the nerve. Specifically, the invention utilized pre-operative scans of a patient's nasal cavity in order to identify target treatment locations when a nerve to be treated is located. The image...