US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on Dec. 30 for "Surgical training model for laparoscopic procedures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,017, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical training model for laparoscopic procedures" was invented by Gregory K. Hofstetter (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Tracy Breslin (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Khodr Saleh (Whittier, Calif.), Natasha Felsinger (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Katie Black (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Milan Draganov (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical training device is provided. The training device includes a model for practicing the passage of needle and suture. The model includes a base with a plurality of open...