US Patent Issued to Hubly on Aug. 12 for "System and method for integrated surgical guide-hub and drill with guided drilling and plunge protection" (Illinois, Texas, California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,285, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hubly Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for integrated surgical guide-hub and drill with guided drilling and plunge protection" was invented by Amit Bhasker Ayer (Chicago), Nathanael David Andrews (Palo Alto, Calif.), Casey Mimi Grage (Vienna, Va.) and Nisar Hemant Parekh (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using a medical tool comprising a cranial access drill includes placing a guide-hub against a cranial drilling surface, guiding a drill bit into the guide-hub along an axial direction of the guide-hub, drilling the cranial drilling surface in the axial direc...