ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,288, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Prodeon Medical Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Self-actuating grasping device" was invented by Jimmy Jen (Saratoga, Calif.), Kenneth Chih-Ping Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Craig Purdy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gary Daniel Zaretzka (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Po-Hua Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An self-actuating grasping device and corresponding method of using the grasping device for retrieving a foreign object from a location in a patient's body. The grasping device has a handle with a self-actuating mechanism, an actuator on the handle coupled to an actuator wire, an elongated shaft me...