US Patent Issued to Monteris Medical on Sept. 2 for "Cranial access device" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,972, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Monteris Medical Corp. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Cranial access device" was invented by James Patrick Moorman (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Walter John Dobrovolny (Saint Paul, Minn.), Jack Michael Mondry (Edina, Minn.) and Mark Andrew Grant (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a cranial access device that reduces or eliminates artifacts during imaging. The cranial access device includes a cranial bolt and a drive adapter. The cranial bolt includes a distal threaded portion, a proximal drive portion comprising a plurality of protrusions that form an external drive geomet...