US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on April 8 for "Medical forceps with offset teeth" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,432, issued on April 8, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Medical forceps with offset teeth" was invented by John Mensch (Plymouth, Minn.), Zane R. Ward (Minneapolis), Jeffrey Nelson (Plymouth, Minn.), Huisun Wang (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Nikhil M. Murdeshwar (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forceps including a gripping assembly. The gripping assembly includes an upper jaw and a lower jaw. The upper jaw includes a proximal end and a distal end. The upper jaw includes an upper tooth having an upper proximally facing canted tooth surface and an upper distally facing canted tooth surface. The low...