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Article: U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Missouri (Nov. 29)
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 29 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Missouri.
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WIPO: Inventors in Missouri Develop Electrostriction Devices
GENEVA, Nov. 28 - Raju, R. Viswanathan, Peter R. Werp and Rogers C. Ritter, all from St. Louis, have developed electrostriction devices.
According to an abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, in the present invention an "apparatus and method for interventional navigation within a subject's body is provided in which a medica! device having at least one electrostrictive element is adapted to cause the distal end of the medical device to bend in a given direction for improving ...