ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,091, issued on Dec. 16.
"Surgical shaver" was invented by Sven Behrendt (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical shaver has a tubular inner sleeve rotatable about its longitudinal axis and connectable to a rotary drive and a tubular outer sleeve surrounding and rotatably fixed with respect to the inner sleeve. The free distal ends of the inner and outer sleeves are open in the longitudinal direction. The outer sleeve has, near its free end, at least one cutting bar extending and projecting longitudinally and having at least one first cutting edge having a component in the longitudinal direction and starting from t...