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Article: Patent No. 7,559,925 Issued on July 14, Assigned to Acclarent for Visualization Facilitation Device (California Inventors)
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- July 18, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 18 -- John Y. Chang and William M. Facteau, both of Mountain View, Calif., Eric Goldfarb of Belmont, Calif., and John Morriss of San Francisco, have developed a device for facilitating visualization in a surgical environment. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,559,925 on July 14.
The patent has been assigned to Acclarent Inc., Menlo Park, Calif.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for visually confirming the positioning of a distal end portion of an illuminating device placed within a patient include inserting a distal end portion of an illuminating device internally into a patient, emitting light ...