ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,207, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Viking Arm Medical AS (Baerums Verk, Norway).
"Surgical retractor device" was invented by Oivind Resch (Oslo, Norway), Hans Martin Aguilera (Oslo, Norway), Terje Scheen (Drobak, Norway) and Ivar Bjarne Mo (Vear, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical retractor device has a housing with press arms coupled thereto, each arm having rotational movement in a plane, and a gripping member pivoting at right angle with the plane, at an outer end of the arm; an attachment means at an inner end of the arm; an opening and closing mechanism with rotatable press arm attachment structures attaching ...