US Patent Issued to Faxitron Bioptics on Feb. 18 for "Gamma probe with hand-piece control of detection parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,689, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Faxitron Bioptics LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Gamma probe with hand-piece control of detection parameters" was invented by Stephen Yarnall (Poway, Calif.), Joel Kindem (Poway, Calif.) and Richard Conwell (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, techniques and systems are described for facilitating identification of a target area during a probe-guided radio-localization surgical procedure. The described apparatus, techniques and systems can be used to implement a nuclear-uptake mode controller integrated into a probe to allow a user to instantly switch between multiple nuclear-upt...