US Patent Issued to AtriCure on Oct. 21 for "Clip applier" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,893, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"Clip applier" was invented by Christopher Widenhouse (Mason, Ohio), Frank Fago (Mason, Ohio), Jonathan McHale (Mason, Ohio), Edward Biehle (Mason, Ohio), Heidi Koett (Mason, Ohio) and Erica Schwab (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical devices and instruments, particularly appliers that may be used to apply occlusion devices such as occlusion clips on anatomical structures, are disclosed. Some example clip appliers may include an activation lever configured to open and close an occlusion clip releasably mounted in an end effector. Some example clip app...