ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,120, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Relign Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Arthroscopic devices and methods" was invented by Aaron Germain (San Jose, Calif.), Jan Echeverry (San Jose, Calif.) and Jeff Norton (Emerald Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arthroscopy system includes both a motorized handpiece and a detachable probe. The motorized handpiece includes a rotating driver which is configured to engage a rotatable drive coupling within a hub of the probe. The probe has a shaft with an articulating distal region, and the rotatable drive coupling is configured to convert the rotary motion of the rotating driver to ...