US Patent Issued to THOMPSON SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 3 for "Retractor system and side load connector for surgical retractor blade" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,110, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to THOMPSON SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS INC. (Traverse City, Mich.).

"Retractor system and side load connector for surgical retractor blade" was invented by William White (Traverse City, Mich.), Adam Truckey (Suttons Bay, Mich.), Daniel K. Farley (Traverse City, Mich.), Steven Nowak (Traverse City, Mich.) and Christopher T. Martin (Cedar, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side-load connector comprises a housing, a port into which an attachment post of a retractor blade is loaded, a sidewall opening, a retaining fork between a housing upper surface and a housing lower surface, and a slider. The port pa...