US Patent Issued to ENDOMAGNETICS on Oct. 20 for "Susceptibility probes for detecting surgical markers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,908, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ENDOMAGNETICS LTD (Great Britain).

"Susceptibility probes for detecting surgical markers" was invented by Tiziano Agostinelli (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jonathan Edward Isaac (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Liam Douglas Malone (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe for locating a magnetic marker for use in surgery. The probe comprises at least two first coils (3a, 3b) and at least one second coil (5) which are arranged substantially coaxially on a longitudinal axis of the probe for measuring the proximity of a magnetic marker to the probe, and a baseline voltage taring...