US Patent Issued to Bolder Surgical on Oct. 7 for "Anti-buckling actuation members for a surgical instrument" (Colorado, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,591, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bolder Surgical LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Anti-buckling actuation members for a surgical instrument" was invented by Perry Krager (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Erin McConnaghy (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Allison Lyle (Marlborough, Mass.) and Nathan Steketee (Westminster, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic surgical instrument has a distal end configured to perform an action on tissue; a proximal end; a beam; a drive rod; and at least one rail supporting at least one bearing, the at least one bearing movable relative to the at least one rail. The distal end of the instrument is config...