ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,113, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).
"Staple instrument" was invented by Wesley Reed (Libertyville, Ill.), Samuel Nader (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Dinesh Koka (Winter Park, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a staple instrument for inserting and removing staples from bone. A rotational drive shaft is turned to provide finite adjustments to open and close jaws used to hold and adjust the legs of a staple. A converter coupling converts the rotational motion of the drive shaft to liner motion to operate an articulated linkage system that moves the jaws. The jaws include ...