US Patent Issued to CorTec on Sept. 15 for "Implantable array with a reference structure and a method of imaging the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,599, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CorTec GmbH (Freiburg, Germany).

"Implantable array with a reference structure and a method of imaging the same" was invented by Johannes Erhardt (Bad Bellingen, Germany), Martin Schuettler (Emmendingen, Germany) and Thomas Stieglitz (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable array suitable for being placed in anatomic tissue of a human or animal body is provided. The implantable array has a substrate and a reference structure, the reference structure being formed by a number of notches arranged in at least one outer edge of the substrate, the reference structure defines...