US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on May 20 for "Rotatable surgical instrument with bearing" (Tennessee, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,143, issued on May 20, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Rotatable surgical instrument with bearing" was invented by Joey Magno (Dudley, Mass.), Canh S. Ly (Cordova, Tenn.) and Reid M. Anderson (Lakeland, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable surgical instrument, system, and method includes an outer tubular member and an inner tubular member contained, at least in part, within the outer tubular member and configured to rotate relative to the outer tubular member. A distal tip is coupled to and configured to rotate with the inner tubular member, the distal tip forming a channel around a portion of the d...