US Patent Issued to Arculant on Aug. 19 for "Surgical instruments with coupling members to effect multiple pivot axes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,241, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Arculant Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Surgical instruments with coupling members to effect multiple pivot axes" was invented by Jimmy Joung Pak (Moraga, Calif.) and Mark Andrew Spencer (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate generally to surgical instruments, tools, and apparatuses for medical use, including, but not limited to, forceps, tweezers, and pincers, as well as other anatomical tools for surgical and medical uses, and, more specifically, to surgical instruments implementing a coupling member to effectuate multiple pivot axes enhance, for example,...