US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on Dec. 2 for "Single port instruments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,921, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Single port instruments" was invented by Arkadiusz A. Strokosz (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), David T. Okihisa (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Steven E. Decker (Anaheim, Calif.), Phillip De Alday (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Scott V. Taylor (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Henry Kahle (Corona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical tools that can be used in single port laparoscopic procedures can include a low-profile handle assembly to minimize tool interference adjacent the incision site. For example, a han...