US Patent Issued to Lexion Medical on Sept. 16 for "Method and system for measuring pressure in a body cavity" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,047, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lexion Medical LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method and system for measuring pressure in a body cavity" was invented by Carl M. Geisz (Edina, Minn.) and Rochelle M. Amann (Mendota Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, from a primary pressure sensor, a pressure measurement indicative of a pressure of a patient cavity and controlling, by an insufflator, a supply of the insufflation fluid to the patient cavity based on the pressure measurement from the primary pressure sensor. The method further includes delivering, by a trocar, the supplied insufflation fluid to t...