ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,095, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BEIJING MED-ZENITH MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION LIMITED (Beijing).
"Knotter" was invented by Zhiwei Ma (Beijing), Danian Ke (Beijing), Qingliang Zhou (Beijing) and Jian Meng (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knotter, including: a driving structure; a punching and shearing clip, a clip mouth of the punching and shearing clip having a first position in an open state, and a second position in a punching state when driven by the driving structure; and scissor having a first position in an open state when driven by the driving structure, and a second position in a shearing state when drive...