ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,087, issued on March 18, was assigned to LSI Solutions Inc. (Victor, N.Y.).

"Device for vessel harvesting" was invented by Jude S. Sauer (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Matthew David DeClerck (Greece, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for vessel harvesting is disclosed. The device for vessel harvesting includes a distal housing, a dissector coupled to the distal housing, a drive element coupled to the dissector, and an actuator coupled to the drive element. The device for vessel harvesting may also include a rotatable dissector, a shaft coupled to the distal housing having a first articulation joint movable within a first plane, an...