US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on April 29 for "Forceps including a pre-loaded handle latch" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,183, issued on April 29, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Forceps including a pre-loaded handle latch" was invented by Eric J. Boone (Saint Michael, Minn.), Christian J. Fiksen (Maple Grove, Minn.), Zane R. Ward (Minneapolis), Hanam S. Pham (Ramsey, Minn.) and Jeffrey Nelson (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device comprising: a closure assembly including: (a) a latch unit comprising: (A) a hook latch, having a home position, (B) a forward bias constraint, (C) a rearward bias constraint, and (D) a bias member extending between the forward bias constraint and the rearward bias constraint s...