ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,168, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Prana Thoracic Inc. (Houston).
"Tissue resection control systems and methods" was invented by Kelvin Boateng (Houston), William Cohn (Houston), Terry Daglow (Houston), Matthew Kuhn (Houston), Steven Nguyen (Houston), Ravi Patel (Houston), Tushar Sharma (Houston) and Jorge Salazar (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing tissues may comprise disposing a tissue resection device at a target tissue site, causing the tissue resection device to resect a core of tissue from the target tissue site, removing the core of tissue from the body, wherein the removing the core of tissue f...