US Patent Issued to Medos International on Dec. 9 for "Flexible surgical access port" (American, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,004, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Flexible surgical access port" was invented by John Riley Hawkins (Cumberland, R.I.), Jorn Richter (Kandern, Germany), Eric Buehlmann (Duxbury, Mass.), Daniel Thommen (Liestal, Switzerland) and Roger Berger (Buren, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible surgical access port is provided that includes a flexible body. The flexible body is configured to elastically expand in response to passage of a surgical equipment therethrough, and thus retracts as the surgical equipment moves past. Thus, the flexible body can provide a surgical a...