US Patent Issued to Saint Louis University, Washington University on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for guiding surgical tools" (Illinois, Colorado, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,118, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Saint Louis University (St. Louis) and Washington University (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for guiding surgical tools" was invented by Jenna Gorlewicz (Edwardsville, Ill.), Nnaoma Agwu (Denver), Kyle Deprow (East Alton, Ill.) and Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for guiding surgical tools to a surgical site, and more particularly, to systems and methods for guiding a tool sheath of a delivery system to a surgical site such as a location in a subject's brain and associated surgical procedures."

The paten...