ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,301, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Teleflex Life Sciences LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"System for delivery of a fiducial marker" was invented by Jacqueline Nerney Welch (Moraga, Calif.), Floria Cheng (San Francisco), Jolene Cutts (San Francisco), Alexander Charles Gordon (San Carlos, Calif.), Kevin Alexander Lessard (San Francisco), Curtis Yarra (Oakland, Calif.), Christopher Zaler (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Joseph Catanese III (San Leandro, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transurethral system for delivering and depositing fiducial markers usable to delineate the prostate during radiation therapy includes at least one implant o...