US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 5 for "Surgical access assembly and method of using same" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,741, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical access assembly and method of using same" was invented by Joseph L. Mark (Indianapolis), Brian C. Dougherty (Terre Haute, Ind.), Adam Furore (Warsaw, Ind.) and Mick Trompen (Westfield, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illuminating ring assembly is disclosed. The illuminating ring configured to be used with a surgical access element. The illuminating ring assembly comprises a housing defined by a cover and a wall member extending from the cover, wherein the cover and wall member cooperate to define a cavity therein, a light element configured to be d...