US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, UPMC on Feb. 3 for "Sensing cannula systems" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,054, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and UPMC (Pittsburgh).

"Sensing cannula systems" was invented by David Turer (Pittsburgh), William W. Clark (Wexford, Pa.), April Lawrence (Pittsburgh), Ehsan Qaium (Pittsburgh), Joseph Peter Rubin (Pittsburgh) and Cameron Dezfulian (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are sensing cannula systems that include a surgical instrument, a detection unit, and a conductive pad having a reference electrode and configured to be placed on the patient at a location outside the patient's body. The surg...