ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,751, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Acumed LLC (Hillsboro, Ore.).
"Nested cannula system" was invented by Devan Jaecker (Beaverton, Ore.), Dustin Cluff (St. Helens, Ore.), Stanley J. Langford (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Andrew W. Seykora (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for an interlocking cannula system that includes a handle and a set of cannulas. The set of cannulas includes a sequence of smaller to larger cannulas constructed such that the smaller cannulas may be nested within larger cannulas. Each cannula in the set of cannulas includes a respective locking mechanism configured such th...