US Patent Issued to SOMATEX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 2 for "Implantable marker body for breast treatment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,621, issued on June 2, was assigned to SOMATEX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES GmbH (Berlin).

"Implantable marker body for breast treatment" was invented by Thorsten Krause (Berlin), Nils Drewes (Berlin), Sophie Melzer (Berlin), Dirk Hornscheidt (Berlin), Jonathan Cornelius Berndt (Berlin) and Merlin Bergmeister (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a marker body (10) for marking breast tissue for radiotherapy. The marker body (10) has an at least partly tube-like body (12) which is made from a soft elastic material and carries multiple radio-opaque marker elements (18). The at least partly tube-like body (12) is design...