US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations Holdings on June 17 for "Cutting assembly for surgical instrument with clog-reducing tip" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,405, issued on June 17, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).

"Cutting assembly for surgical instrument with clog-reducing tip" was invented by Damian Michael Curtin (Kerry, Ireland) and Patrick Eoin Cushen (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting assembly configured to be removably coupled to a drive assembly of a surgical instrument. An inner tube is coaxially and rotatably disposed within an outer tube and defines a lumen in communication with a cutting window. A projection is disposed within the lumen of the inner tube. The projection may include a distal first portion displaced...