US Patent Issued to The Children's Medical Center on March 31 for "Minimally invasive dissector for inter-layer procedures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,924, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Minimally invasive dissector for inter-layer procedures" was invented by Pedro Jose del Nido (Lexington, Mass.), Borami Shin Lee (Dorchester, Mass.), Christopher James Payne (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mossab Ym Saeed (Revere, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for minimally invasive, inter-layer surgical procedures advantageously forms a wedge for advancing between adjacent tissue layers and provides a jaw that can be actuated to create a working space for a cutting tool and other instruments within a plane between the tissue layers. The d...