US Patent Issued to Relievant Medsystems on June 17 for "Systems for accessing nerves within bone" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,412, issued on June 17, was assigned to Relievant Medsystems Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Systems for accessing nerves within bone" was invented by Richard Pellegrino (Leesburg, Va.), Samit Patel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Harold Carrison (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are shown having a tube-within-tube assembly with a deployable curved deflectable tube or cannula that deploys from a straight cannula or trocar. The curved cannula has pre-curved distal end to create an angular range of 0deg to 180deg when fully deployed from the straight trocar. The curve is configured such that the flexible element carryi...