ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,866, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).
"Surgical access system and related methods" was invented by James Coleman Lee (San Diego), Benjamin Verhage (San Diego), Michael Serra (San Diego), Troy Woolley (San Diego), Brian Snider (San Diego) and Matthew Schwartz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical access system comprising a tissue dilation assembly and a tissue retraction assembly, both of which may be equipped with one or more electrodes for use in detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures."
The patent was filed on June 15, 2022, under ...