US Patent Issued to Vascular Technology on Sept. 30 for "Articulating microsurgical instrument" (New Hampshire, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,906, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Vascular Technology Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Articulating microsurgical instrument" was invented by David Regan (Pelham, N.H.), Ronald Russell (Londonderry, N.H.), Rachana S. Suchdev (Hollis, N.H.), Trevor Jacob Laughlin (Minneapolis) and Stephen Martone (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for an articulating microsurgical instrument is disclosed herein. The articulating microsurgical instrument may be configured to be operable with a Doppler probe, bone grasper, soft tissue grasper/dissector, scissors, flexible forceps, or a suction/irrigation line configured to...