ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,787, issued on March 11, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
"Tissue forceps with wide jaw" was invented by Mohamed Abduallah Alshehri (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Awadh Alamri (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Sami Hussain Alqahtani (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for grasping tissue using the tissue forceps with wide jaws. The tissue forceps include a first arm and a second arm joined at a vertex at a proximal end. The first arm and the second arm have distal portions which are extensions angled leftward away from the longitudinal axis of the first and second arms. Wid...