US Patent Issued to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, for itself and on behalf of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and, The Trustees of Dartmouth College on March 25 for "System and method for forming a cavity in soft tissue and bone" (New Hampshire, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,948, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, for itself and on behalf of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and (Lebanon, N.H.) and The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"System and method for forming a cavity in soft tissue and bone" was invented by Sohail K. Mirza (Fairfax, Va.), Keith D. Paulsen (Lebanon, N.H.) and Ryan J. Halter (Orford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating a cavity with a drill assembly provides a powered drill shaft assembly having an articulating tip and a position sensor along the drill shaft; a drill motor assembly with a rotational motor, l...