US Patent Issued to INSTITUT HOSPITALO-UNIVERSITAIRE DE CHIRURGIE MINI-INVASIVE GUIDEE PAR L'IMAGE, INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE CONTRE LES CANCERS DE L'APPAREIL DIGESTIF IRCAD on March 24 for "Surgical device comprising a rod having a deformable sleeve at its distal end surrounding said rod" (Mexican, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,761, issued on March 24, was assigned to INSTITUT HOSPITALO-UNIVERSITAIRE DE CHIRURGIE MINI-INVASIVE GUIDEE PAR L'IMAGE (Strasbourg, France) and INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE CONTRE LES CANCERS DE L'APPAREIL DIGESTIF IRCAD (Strasbourg, France).

"Surgical device comprising a rod having a deformable sleeve at its distal end surrounding said rod" was invented by Joel Leroy (Bouvigny-Boyeffles, France) and Amilcar Alzaga (Mexico City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a surgical device comprising a rod having a deformable sleeve at its distal end surrounding the rod, the control element being longitudinally movable for mov...