US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on June 24 for "Surgical cutting tool" (Kansas, Minnesota, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,730, issued on June 24, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Surgical cutting tool" was invented by Ryan A. Kellar (Naples, Fla.), Jerel Barrera (Seal Beach, Calif.), Sanjeev Kakar (Rochester, Minn.), Matthew Daggett (Leawood, Kan.), Claudine Reider (Ontario, Calif.) and Bob Weber (Chino Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical cutting tool with a body having a proximal end and a distal end; a cannula rotatably extending from the distal end of the body, the cannula having a proximal end and a distal end; a cutting head removably coupled to the distal end of the cannula, the cutting head having a distal tip and...