US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center on May 27 for "Instrument port with integrated imaging system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,559, issued on May 27, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Instrument port with integrated imaging system" was invented by Pedro J. del Nido (Lexington, Mass.) and Nikolay V. Vasilyev (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument port for introducing an instrument into a surgical site includes a port body, a bulb disposed on the distal end of the port body, and a channel extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the instrument port. The channel includes an instrument channel defined in the port body and a bulb channel defined in the bulb. An imaging system is disposed at or near the distal ...