US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 23 for "Surgical access device with rotatably actuated fixation mechanism" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,665, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical access device with rotatably actuated fixation mechanism" was invented by Astley C. Lobo (West Haven, Conn.), Oksana Buyda (East Haven, Conn.), Christopher A. Tokarz (Torrington, Conn.), Kevin Desjardin (Prospect, Conn.), Amanda M. Adinolfi (Wallingford, Conn.) and Douglas M. Pattison (East Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical access device includes a cannula body and a fixation mechanism. The cannula body includes a housing, and an elongated portion extending distally from the housing and defining a longitudinal axis. The fixatio...