ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,178, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Medtronic PS Medical Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Tracked powered drill assembly" was invented by Milton F. Barnes (Grand Prairie, Texas), Thomas M. Meese (Louisville, Colo.), Michael Vu (Grand Prairie, Texas), Vikram A. Garadi (Keller, Texas), Zachary S. Heiliger (Nederland, Colo.) and Aayush Malla (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system to engage one or more tools. In the system a drive shaft and collet may be assembled to engage and disengage, selectively, a plurality of tools. Further, a tracking device may be used to track a location of at least a portion of the to...