US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 23 for "System and method for magnetic occult lesion localization and imaging" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,534, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"System and method for magnetic occult lesion localization and imaging" was invented by Ananth Ravi (Toronto) and John Dillon (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for marking the location and extent of an anatomical region-of-interest, such as a tumor, using magnetic seeds whose position and orientation are measured or otherwise detected using a detection device that includes two or more magnetic sensors are described. One or more magnetic seeds are implanted to mark and define the center and extent of an anatomical region-of-...