US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on Sept. 8 for "Surgical access port" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,912, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical access port" was invented by Kimball B. McGinley (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Henry Kahle (Corona, Calif.), Scott V. Taylor (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Gary M. Johnson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical access port or trocar is provided. The trocar has a trocar seal housing and a trocar cannula with an optical obturator insertable through the trocar seal housing and the trocar cannula. The trocar is configured to access a body cavity, to maintain positive pressure and...