US Patent Issued to Tufts Medical Center on March 3 for "Systems and methods for accessing a renal capsule for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,423, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tufts Medical Center Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for accessing a renal capsule for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes" was invented by Navin K. Kapur (Boston) and Richard H. Karas (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for accessing a renal capsule of a patient's kidney in a minimally invasive manner for therapeutic and/or diagnostic purposes. The method includes advancing the distal end of a catheter into the subcapsular space of the renal capsule and performing the therapeutic and/or diagnostic procedure(s). With access to the renal capsule, ...