ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,301, issued on May 20, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Intraoperative neural monitoring system and method" was invented by Christopher Wybo (Brighton, Mich.), Darren Scarfe (LaSalle, Canada), Aashish Shah (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jacob A. Marks (Mansfield, Mass.) and James G. Lee (South Weymouth, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neuromuscular sensing method includes transmitting an electrical stimulus from a distal end portion of an elongate stimulator extending within an intracorporeal treatment area of a subject and detecting an artificially induced response of at least two muscles of the subject in ...