US Patent Issued to CooperSurgical on June 3 for "Illuminated surgical retractor capable of hand-held operation and of being mounted to a fixed frame" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,080, issued on June 3, was assigned to CooperSurgical Inc. (Trumbull, Conn.).

"Illuminated surgical retractor capable of hand-held operation and of being mounted to a fixed frame" was invented by Jason Swift (Newburyport, Mass.), Matthew Traub (Andover, Mass.) and James Pehl (Methuen, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical retractor, comprising a handle, a blade extending from the handle, wherein the handle has an ergonomic construction configured for hand-held use of the retractor, and wherein the handle is configured to attach to one or more of a fixed frame and a fixed arm of a surgical positioning device."

The patent was...