US Patent Issued to XPAN on Dec. 2 for "Radially expandable cannula devices, and systems and methods for using them" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,931, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to XPAN Inc. (Nobleton, Canada).

"Radially expandable cannula devices, and systems and methods for using them" was invented by Zaid Atto (Nobleton, Canada), Amanda Manget (Toronto) and Shannon Kremer (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cannula devices, systems, and methods are provided for introducing one or more instruments into a patient's body to perform a procedure. In one example, the cannula device includes first and second housings defining a throughbore, and a plurality of elongate members extending distally from the housings, the elongate members cooperatively defining a passage ...