US Patent Issued to Relievant Medsystems on May 20 for "Methods for accessing nerves within bone" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,166, issued on May 20, was assigned to Relievant Medsystems Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Methods 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: "Methods of ablating a basivertebral nerve (BVN) in a lumbar or sacral vertebral body of a patient. An introducer and one or more instruments are selected after a pre-surgical evaluation. The introducer has a handle coupled to a shaft defining a central channel and an opening at a distal tip thereof. The introducer is inserted through a pedicle of the vertebral ...