ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,600, issued on June 10, was assigned to LSI Solutions Inc. (Victor, N.Y.).

"Surgical clamp and clamp jaw" was invented by Jude S. Sauer (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical clamp jaw is disclosed, having an inner profile and a deflection control profile opposite the inner profile. In one embodiment, the inner profile has a first substantially concave profile in an unclamped position and a second substantially flat profile in a clamped position. In one embodiment, the deflection control profile has one or more sets of corresponding abutment surfaces, at least one set of which is not contacting each other when the...