US Patent Issued to Clee Medical on Sept. 8 for "Automated drilling device and method" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,891, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Clee Medical SA (Geneva).

"Automated drilling device and method" was invented by Samuel G. Rodriques (Wilmington, Del.), David J. Segar (Wilmington, Del.), Jonathan Betts-LaCroix (Wilmington, Del.), Jerome Gandar (Geneva) and Matthew Lapinski (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device for automated drilling includes a drill comprising a drill bit configured to bore through bone and a detector comprising a tissue detection sensor. The drill and detector are independently actuable for insertion and removal of the drill bit and the tissue detection sensor in a bore generated by the d...