US Patent Issued to Acclarent, Biosense Webster (Israel) on Nov. 11 for "Instrument with integral imaging and irrigation features" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,204, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Acclarent Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) and Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Instrument with integral imaging and irrigation features" was invented by Fatemeh Akbarian (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel), Itzhak Fang (Irvine, Calif.), Jetmir Palushi (Irvine, Calif.), Athanasios Papadakis (Newport Beach, Calif.), Henry F. Salazar (Pico Rivera, Calif.) and Ehsan Shameli (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument and related method includes an instrument body, a guide shaft distally projecting from the instrument body, and a first su...