US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Navigation Sciences on Jan. 20 for "System for a tissue resection margin measurement device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,599, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston) and Navigation Sciences Inc. (Brookline, Mass.).

"System for a tissue resection margin measurement device" was invented by Raphael Bueno (Brookline, Mass.), Jayender Jagadeesan (Bedford, Mass.) and Alan D. Lucas (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for resecting a tissue mass. The system for resecting a tissue mass includes a first sensor for measuring a signal corresponding to the position and orientation of the tissue mass. The first sensor is dimensioned to fit inside of or nex...