ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,326, issued on March 4, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Surgical instrument with linear translation mechanism" was invented by Timothy J. Bozung (Belding, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument comprises a hand-held portion configured to be manipulated by a user and a pivoting portion operatively coupled to the hand-held portion. The pivoting portion is configured to pivot with respect to the hand-held portion according to first and second degrees of freedom. The pivoting portion includes an accessory drive motor, an accessory drive member configured to be driven by the accessory drive motor, a pl...