US Patent Issued to Baylor College of Medicine on March 24 for "Universally friendly obturator (UFO) for brachytherapy treatment of cervical cancer" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,838, issued on March 24, was assigned to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston).

"Universally friendly obturator (UFO) for brachytherapy treatment of cervical cancer" was invented by Alexander Hanania (Houston), Michelle S. Ludwig (Houston), Elisa Arango (Bellaire, Texas), Susannah Dittmar (Menlo Park, Calif.), Krithika Kumar (Houston), Lauren Payne (McKinney, Texas), Sanika Rane (Houston) and Andrea Samantha Gobin (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a brachytherapy applicator device having: an elongate body defining a plurality of brachytherapy needle channels, each adapted and configured to...