US Patent Issued to Power Dental U.S.A. on Feb. 10 for "Surgical needle holder and methods of using the same" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,063, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Power Dental U.S.A. Inc. (McHenry, Ill.).

"Surgical needle holder and methods of using the same" was invented by Kyle Lim (McHenry, Ill.) and Kang Ho Lim (Carpentersville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical needle holders comprise a pair of opposed needle gripping clamp jaws pivotally secured via a pivot, a pair of opposed handles, a pair of leaf spring sections extending from the opposed handles for biasing the needle gripping clamp jaws away from each other, and a rotating latch mechanism extending perpendicularly from one of the opposed handles and a contact surface extending from ...