ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,618, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Water enucleation of the prostate" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Surag Mantri (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide improved methods and apparatus of treating the prostate. In many embodiments, at least a portion of the prostate is enucleated with a water jet, in order to decrease the invasiveness of the surgery. The access to the prostate can be provided with one or more of open surgical access, percutaneous access, or urethral access. The prostate can be enucl...