US Patent Issued to MINERVA SURGICAL on Sept. 30 for "Tissue extraction devices and methods" (Hungarian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,943, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MINERVA SURGICAL INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tissue extraction devices and methods" was invented by Aaron Germain (Campbell, Calif.), Kyle Klein (San Jose, Calif.), Michael D. Walker (San Francisco) and Benedek Orczy-Timko (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue resection device comprises inner and outer coaxial sleeves. The outer sleeve has a cutting window formed therein, and the inner sleeve has a distal cutting end that can be reciprocated past the cutting window. The sleeves comprise electrodes to provide electrosurgical cutting, and an edge portion of the window incl...