ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,332, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston) and Navigation Sciences Inc. (Brookline, Mass.).
"System and method for percutaneous deployment of sensors" was invented by Jayender Jagadeesan (Bedford, Mass.), Raphael Bueno (Brookline, Mass.), Alan D. Lucas (Brookline, Mass.), Timothy W. Robinson (Sandown, N.H.) and Laurence A. Roth (Windham, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking the location of a tissue mass comprising disposing a J-bar and electrical lead assembly within a needle cannula lumen; disposing the needle cannula within an outer cannula lumen; inserting the outer ...