US Patent Issued to Panacea Spine on March 4 for "Pain treatment using wanding of percutaneous surgical probe over sensory nerve" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,362, issued on March 4, was assigned to Panacea Spine LLC (Orlando, Fla.).

"Pain treatment using wanding of percutaneous surgical probe over sensory nerve" was invented by Ara Deukmedjian (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a rhizotomy includes directing a surgical probe through an incision in the body of a patient, navigating a distal tip of the probe to a location adjacent a target nerve, energizing the probe to deliver energy to the target nerve, and wanding the distal tip of the probe in a plurality of directions to direct the energy at the target nerve to interrupt signal transmission by the targ...