ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,941, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR LLC (Wayne, N.J.).
"Vessel harvesting apparatus and method" was invented by Liming Lau (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for harvesting a vessel from a body, includes: a cannula having a dissector for advancing along the vessel to create a tunnel, the dissector having a transparent portion; and an energy tool moveably coupled to the cannula, wherein the energy tool is configured to separate a pediculated vessel having at least a segment of the vessel and a pedicle around the segment of the vessel from surrounding tissue, and wherein at lea...