ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,987, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MEDTRAK LLC (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Medical implant tracking system" was invented by Robert McNutt (Mesa, Ariz.), Venkatesh G. Ramaiah (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Briant Benson (Placerville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying and tracking a plurality of implant devices. The system includes at least one communication device and a medical implant device tracking system. The medical implant device tracking system includes a processor on which is installed an implant device tracking application. The implant device tracking application enables the communication device to scan...