US Patent Issued on Aug. 5 for "Atraumatic tenaculum for facilitation of transcervical procedures" (Michigan, New York, Georgia, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,871, issued on Aug. 5.

"Atraumatic tenaculum for facilitation of transcervical procedures" was invented by Maurice Andre Recanati (New York), Katherine Kramer (Philadelphia), Jay Berman (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Mohammad Ali Ozbeki (Novi, Mich.), John M. Pierick Jr. (Gross Pointe Woods, Mich.), Johney Lee (Monroe, Ga.), Ali Ghazala (Troy, Mich.), Uzair Shah (Canton, Mich.) and George Contos (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device used for grasping a body tissue has a main body having a first arm rotatably connected to a second arm at a pivot point. The main body has a proximal end and a distal end. A handle p...