US Patent Issued to MEDICAROID on Feb. 10 for "Surgical instrument and method of assembling surgical instrument" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,168, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MEDICAROID Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Surgical instrument and method of assembling surgical instrument" was invented by Shota Betsugi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument according to an embodiment may include: a shaft; a seal member disposed in a support body; and a pressing member including a pressing surface in contact with and pressing a surface of the seal member on a side of the shaft, wherein the pressing member is pressed by the shaft."

The patent was filed on Sept. 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/023,367.

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