US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on March 18 for "Tissue retractor and method of use" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,090, issued on March 18, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Tissue retractor and method of use" was invented by Jason Cianfrani (Conshohocken, Pa.), Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.), Adam Friedrich (Cinnaminson, N.J.), Erik Peterson (Pottstown, Pa.) and Sean Suh (Milltown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods related to retractor systems that retract tissue to allow access to a surgical site are described. The retractor systems can include a first rotatable arm attachable to a first blade, a second rotatable arm attachable to a second blade and a third linearly translatable arm attachable ...