ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,520, issued on April 22, was assigned to Relign Corp. (Campbell, Calif.).
"Arthroscopic devices and methods" was invented by Aaron Germain (San Jose, Calif.), Kyle Klein (San Jose, Calif.) and Jan Echeverry (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arthroscopic or other surgical cutter has features which facilitate fabrication by ceramic molding. The arthroscopic cutter includes a cutter body having a longitudinal axis and a window, an interior channel, and a plurality of cutting edges extending radially outwardly from an outer surface thereof. The features include non-helical, longitudinally aligned cutting edges, controlle...