ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,916, issued on Sept. 15.
"Modular forceps" was invented by William J. Zinnanti (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forceps system including a handle. The handle includes an immovable proximal handgrip and a lever resiliently pivotably coupled to the immovable proximal handgrip, such that exertion of a manual gripping force on the lever pivots the lever in a proximal direction toward the handgrip. A shaft and jaw assembly is releasably couplable to the handle, the shaft and jaw assembly including a pair of pivotable jaw members normally biased to an open configuration, the open configuration of the jaws corresponding...