US Patent Issued to Tautona Group IP Holding on April 22 for "Trocar positioning apparatus and methods for use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,792, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tautona Group IP Holding Co. LLC (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Trocar positioning apparatus and methods for use" was invented by Joseph Rimsa (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Geoffrey C. Gurtner (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trocar retractor apparatus and methods for use are described where an apparatus for positioning an instrument may generally include a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, an instrument positioning guide projecting from the first surface of the substrate, and one or more suction assemblies positioned along the second...