US Patent Issued to Faxitron Bioptics on Aug. 4 for "Gamma probe with hand-piece control of detection parameters" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,191, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Faxitron Bioptics LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Gamma probe with hand-piece control of detection parameters" was invented by Stephen T. Yarnell (Marlborough, Mass.), Joel Kindem (Marlborough, Mass.) and Richard L. Conwell (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, techniques and systems are described for facilitating identification of a target area during a probe-guided radio-localization surgical procedure. The described apparatus, techniques and systems can be used to implement a nuclear-uptake mode controller integrated into a probe to allow a user to instantly switch between m...