ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,720, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SPRINGLOC LTD. (Hosen, Israel).

"Multimodality ID markers for delineating the position of a region of interest (ROI) within a body" was invented by Shalom Strano (Jerusalem), Alexander Lomes (Moshav Hosen, Israel) and Steve Krupa (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multimodality markers for delineation of a region of interest (ROI) within a patient's body are disclosed. The markers may comprise a hermetic bio-compatible container and an external element that is associated with the hermetic bio-compatible container. A unique collective identification (ID) is assigned to each of the m...