US Patent Issued to Covidien on Jan. 13 for "Surgical tissue grasper including a compliant jaw assembly" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,138, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical tissue grasper including a compliant jaw assembly" was invented by Jacob C. Baril (Norwalk, Conn.), Saumya Banerjee (Southington, Conn.), Justin J. Thomas (New Haven, Conn.) and Garrett P. Ebersole (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tissue grasper includes a handle assembly having a trigger, an endoscopic assembly, and a jaw assembly. The endoscopic assembly includes an outer tube and a driver. The driver is movable within the outer tube and operatively coupled to the trigger. The jaw assembly includes a stem detachably coupled to ...