US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 4 for "Hand held surgical handle assembly, surgical adapters for use between surgical handle assembly and surgical end effectors, and methods of use" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,352, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Hand held surgical handle assembly, surgical adapters for use between surgical handle assembly and surgical end effectors, and methods of use" was invented by Michael Zemlok (Prospect, Conn.), David Chowaniec (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Stanislaw Marczyk (Stratford, Conn.), Nihir Patel (Stamford, Conn.) and Ryan Williams (New Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter assembly selectively interconnects a surgical end effector that is configured to perform at least a pair of functions and a surgical device that is configured to actuate the end effector. The...