ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,370, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Surgical instrument" was invented by Tung-Lin Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Chun-Chieh Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chun-Ming Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yue-Jun Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Pei-Hua Wang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a rod and a push portion. The push portion includes a first end connected to an end of the rod and a second end having a blade portion. The push portion includes a plurality of grooves. The plurality of grooves is recessed in a surface of the push portion a...