US Patent Issued to Axcess Instruments IP Holdings on June 3 for "Devices and systems for use in laparoscopic surgery" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,072, issued on June 3, was assigned to Axcess Instruments IP Holdings Co. (Tyler, Texas).

"Devices and systems for use in laparoscopic surgery" was invented by Michael J. Norton (Tyler, Texas) and Noel D. Ischy (Tyler, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access device for a minimally invasive procedure can include a port body defining an instrument channel for a medical instrument, a radial extension extending at least partially outward from the body in a radial direction. The radial extension can extend from a distal end of the port body. The radial extension can define an imaging device cavity defined therein spaced from the por...