US Patent Issued to Nucletron Operations on Dec. 16 for "Selector for remote medical element postioning" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,463, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nucletron Operations B.V. (Veenendaal, Netherlands).

"Selector for remote medical element postioning" was invented by Frits Pieter De Vries (Renkum, Netherlands), Luuk Schouten (Veenendaal, Netherlands) and Aalt Jacob Welgraven (Veenendaal, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a medical device for transporting and positioning a therapeutic emitting element into a treatment channel to be temporarily placed in or at the body of the patient to treat tumours. The therapeutic emitting element is connected to a transport element and which is driven by at least one drive...