ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,453, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).
"Marker inserter" was invented by Gregory R. McArthur (Sandy, Utah) and Michael Dean Haslam (Sandy, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, and related systems and methods, for inserting a marker into a patient's body. The device may comprise a retention mechanism to hold the device in a first, undeployed, state. The device may be inserted into a patient's body in the first state, transitioned by the user into a second state wherein the retention mechanism is overcome, and then transition the device into a third state to deliver a marker to...