US Patent Issued to Relievant Medsystems on Nov. 11 for "Systems for treating nerves within bone" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,373, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Relievant Medsystems Inc. (Edina, Minn.).

"Systems for treating nerves within bone" was invented by Richard C. 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 for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a distal opening at the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curved cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curved cannula comprising a curved...