US Patent Issued to Arthrex on Feb. 24 for "Tool activation and control for surgical handpiece" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,077, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"Tool activation and control for surgical handpiece" was invented by Dzenan Ismic (Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria), Alexander Glaser (Munich) and Daniel Stromsdorfer (Neufahrn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation mechanism for a surgical handpiece includes a trigger assembly extending along a translational path and a rotational linkage in connection with the trigger assembly that converts translational motion along the translational path to a rotational motion about the actuation path. A magnet is in connection with the rotational linkage. The magne...