US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on June 24 for "High speed burr with flex shaft cooling and improved suction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,731, issued on June 24, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"High speed burr with flex shaft cooling and improved suction" was invented by Joey Magno (Dudley, Mass.) and Jake Terravecchia (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable attachment of the handheld surgical instrument having a distal section extending from the handpiece is provided. The disposable attachment has a proximal tube extending from the disposable attachment. The distal section includes an outer tube and a flexible shaft disposed within the outer tube. The flexible shaft couples with the proximal tube via a proximal coupler at a ...