US Patent Issued to Medos International on Dec. 16 for "Retractor members, and related systems and methods" (American, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,055, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Retractor members, and related systems and methods" was invented by Eric Buehlmann (Duxbury, Mass.), Clara Cheung (Quincy, Mass.), Thomas Gamache (Dedham, Mass.), Roman Lomeli (Plymouth, Mass.), Paul S. Maguire (Hope Valley, R.I.), James Paiva (Warren, R.I.), Joern Richter (Basel, Germany), Daniel Thommen (Liestal, Switzerland) and John C. Voellmicke (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractor member is configured for insertion through a channel of an access member and for moving soft tissue at a treatment site that is accessibl...