ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,436, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nucletron Operations B.V. (Veenendaal, Netherlands).
"Brachytherapy source assembly" was invented by Jeroen Anton Schuurman (Amersfoort, Netherlands), Frits Pieter De Vries (Renkum, Netherlands) and Wim De Jager (Kesteren, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure may be drawn to brachytherapy source assemblies. Exemplary source assemblies may include a cable made of an electrically non-conductive material and a guide wire coupled to and extending from a distal end of the cable. The guide wire may have a distal end region and a proximal end region, and the guide w...