US Patent Issued to Ferrosan Medical Devices on Dec. 9 for "Applicator for robotic-assisted surgery" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,964, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ferrosan Medical Devices A/S (Soborg, Denmark).

"Applicator for robotic-assisted surgery" was invented by Peter Lund Hammershoj (Soborg, Denmark), Henning Uzoma Igwebuike (Soborg, Denmark), Lisbeth Nohr Demant (Soborg, Denmark), Christian Bruel (Soborg, Denmark), Mikael Engmark (Soborg, Denmark), Vikram Kjoller Bhatia (Soborg, Denmark), Lars Tamstrup Axelsson (Soborg, Denmark) and Simon Batchelor (Soborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a laparoscopic applicator for dispensing a substance, e.g. a substance comprising a haemostatic agent, at a selected site...