US Patent Issued to Medtronic Xomed on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods facilitating surgical fluid management" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,307, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Medtronic Xomed LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Systems and methods facilitating surgical fluid management" was invented by Mansur I. Omar (Jacksonville, Fla.), Murali K. Marisetti (Hyderabad, India) and Manjit S. Bindra (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical fluid management system includes a console defining a cassette bay and a cassette, including a fluid line extending therethrough, configured for insertion into the cassette bay of the console. The console includes a sensor disposed adjacent the cassette bay configured to detect a position of the cassette relative to the casse...