US Patent Issued on June 16 for "Lung transplant retractor system" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,516, issued on June 16.

"Lung transplant retractor system" was invented by Samuel Jacob (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical retractor device includes at least two retractor blades slidably attached by a tooth and gear mechanism, the blades having concave surfaces facing away from one another. The first concave retractor blade can be joined to a first end of a first bar that has a serrated edge The second concave retractor blade can be joined to a first end of a bar arm that has the gear mechanism at its opposite end. The gear mechanism includes a handle with a gear which causes the first bar to slidably move...