US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 5 for "Tissue resecting device including a blade lock and release mechanism" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,899, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Tissue resecting device including a blade lock and release mechanism" was invented by Peter F. Marshall (Bolton, Mass.) and Timothy J. Wood (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector assembly of a tissue resecting device and a tissue resecting device including the end effector assembly and a handpiece assembly. The end effector assembly including a proximal hub housing, an inner drive core at least partially disposed within the proximal hub housing, a cutting member extending distally from the proximal hub housing and engaged with the inner ...