US Patent Issued to Lexington Medical on Feb. 10 for "Surgical handle assembly" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,070, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lexington Medical Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Surgical handle assembly" was invented by Andrew Marecki (Wilbraham, Mass.) and Richard Moyer (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes apparatuses for a surgical handle assembly. An example apparatus includes a reloadable cartridge assembly and a surgical handle assembly including a spring positioned in the surgical handle assembly at a proximal end of a toothed rack. Proximal movement of the toothed rack causes the spring to be compressed and allows for complete opening of the reloadable cartridge assembly."

The p...