US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, U.S. Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on March 17 for "Magnetic wire for retrieval and elimination of calculus from the urinary tract" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,031, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and U.S. Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Magnetic wire for retrieval and elimination of calculus from the urinary tract" was invented by Tianjia Jessie Ge (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Simon Conti (Stanford, Calif.), Joseph C. Liao (Redwood City, Calif.), Kunj Raju Sheth (San Francisco) and Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for retrieval of kidney stone fragments from a urinary tract is provided. The medical device has a plu...