ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,105, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Institute For Cancer Research (Philadelphia).
"Tensionable surgical clamp" was invented by Benjamin T. Ristau (Philadelphia) and Robert G. Uzzo (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides surgical clamps. The clamp has a body with a mouth that opens and closes to permit the body to encircle a bundle of tissue containing a blood vessel which a surgeon wishes to occlude. The clamp also has an articulating arm that rotates on a hinge and passes through apertures of the clamp body. The apertures and/or the articulating arm include ratchet components that permit the ...