ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,244, issued on April 22, was assigned to Portal Instruments Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Active injection guide" was invented by Robert J. Dyer (Cambridge, Mass.), Andrew Coats (Cambridge, Mass.) and Patrick Anquetil (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active injection guide concurrently monitors surface contact and an instantaneous contact force along an injection axis of an injector in order to ensure that the injector is properly positioned on a patient before an injection can be initiated."
The patent was filed on Nov. 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/099,925.
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