US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific on Sept. 9 for "Insertion devices" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,945, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland) and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Insertion devices" was invented by Jessica Marie Grabinsky (Melrose, Mass.), Jeffrey Louis Barnes (Andover, Mass.), Carolyn Marie Krasniak (Andover, Mass.), Timothy Matthew Murray (Tiverton, R.I.), Kevin Michael Falco (Andover, Mass.) and Francheska Torres (Charlton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cannula for passing surgical instruments through tissue. In some instances, the cannula may include a distal flange flexible between a radial configu...