ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,615, issued on May 13, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallax, Texas).
"Surgical laparoscopic ports for implanting medical systems" was invented by Benjamin K. Yaffe (San Francisco), Shivkumar Sabesan (San Mateo, Calif.) and Eric Irwin (South San Francisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to laparoscopic surgery, and in particular to laparoscopic ports for facilitating the implant of medical systems such as a neuromodulation system into the body of a patient. Particularly, aspects are directed to a cannula assembly having a cannula housing and a cannula sleeve comprising a sleeve body ex...