US Patent Issued to ENDOMAGNETICS on July 7 for "Marker materials and forms for magnetic marker localization (MML)" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,935, issued on July 7, was assigned to ENDOMAGNETICS LTD (Great Britain).

"Marker materials and forms for magnetic marker localization (MML)" was invented by Eric Mayes (Cambridge, Great Britain), Quentin John Harmer (Cambridge, Great Britain), Kevin Lorimer (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Quentin Andrew Pankhurst (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic marker for marking a site in tissue in the body. In one embodiment, the marker comprises a magnetic metallic glass. In another embodiment, the marker is in a non-spherical configuration having an anisotropy ratio less than 9. In yet another embodiment, the ma...