ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,865, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lumitex Inc. (Strongsville, Ohio).
"Surgical retention feature" was invented by Brandon Shafer-Zatko (Medina, Ohio), R J Hagler (Brecksville, Ohio), Joe Dombrowski (Medina, Ohio), Kevin Friedman (Fairview Park, Ohio), Vedang Kothari (Cleveland), Brian Andrich (Medina, Ohio) and Alan Greszler (Westlake, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light guide assembly for use with a retractor having a channel for slidably receiving an end portion of a light guide. The light guide assembly includes a light guide having the end portion for slidably inserting into the channel and retentor for releasably h...