ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,183, issued on June 23, was assigned to ADIS SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"System and method, for training an interventionalist to perform an invasive percutaneous intervention or an endoscopic intervention" was invented by Hussein Ballan (St-Legier, Switzerland), Pascal Fua (Vaux-sur-Morges, Switzerland), Georges Caron (Echandens, Switzerland), Jurg Schwitter (Lutry, Switzerland) and Luigi Bagnato (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for training an interventionalist to perform an invasive percutaneous or endoscopic intervention on an organ includes a pipe having a size and/or shape similar to a body vessel or...