ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,393, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lightpoint Surgical Ltd (Amersham, Great Britain).
"Tethered laparoscopic probe grip" was invented by Kunal Vyas (Amersham, Great Britain), Gavin Ryan (Amersham, Great Britain), David Tuch (Amersham, Great Britain), Stewart Forbes (Amersham, Great Britain) and Francesca Oldfield (Amersham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tethered laparoscopic probe for deployment through a trocar into a cavity of a subject includes a probe head shaped for insertion through the trocar. The probe head includes an elongated casing and a sensor arranged within the casing. The sensor defines a sensi...