US Patent Issued to Terumo Cardiovascular Systems on May 27 for "Articulating stabilizer arm with disposable and reusable subassemblies" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,570, issued on May 27, was assigned to Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Articulating stabilizer arm with disposable and reusable subassemblies" was invented by Bryan Melilli (North East, Md.) and Gregory P. Muennich (Georgetown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stabilizer arm includes a reusable base portion and a disposable arm portion. The articulating links that enable the arm to be positioned into arbitrary trajectories are included the disposable portion, thus eliminating the need to clean between the links after a surgical procedure. The disposable portion also includes a tool attachment mec...