US Patent Issued to Medtronic Xomed on Sept. 30 for "Flexible member for angled system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,863, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Xomed Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Flexible member for angled system" was invented by Thoai Nguyen (Jacksonville, Fla.), Phillip Berman (Jacksonville, Fla.), Louis M. Shadeck (Dunnellon, Fla.), Luis A. Brignoni (Delray Beach, Fla.) and Nawaz Maditheti (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an instrument that may an interior tube and an external tube. The exterior tube may be fixed relative to an interior tube, where the interior tube may rotate or oscillate relative to the exterior tube. Further, the two tubes may be co-bent such that an angle is formed by bo...