ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,092, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Surgical guidance devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Jerry Timothy Long Jr. (Concord, Mass.), Timothy Paul Harrah (Cambridge, Mass.), Brandon W. Craft (Edgewater, Md.), Elizabeth A. Stokley (Raleigh, N.C.), Sebastian Koerner (Berlin), Anant Subramaniam (Brighton, Mass.) and Paul James Fearis (Owings Mills, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidance device is disclosed. The device may comprise a tracking pad with a guiding opening and a plurality of sensors operable with at least one beacon on a needle to track the disposition o...