ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,213, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Astron Medtech Corp..
"Surgical device" was invented by Yi Hsi Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), I-Lin Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Kuei-Hua Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device has a handle, a shaft connecting to the handle, a clamping portion disposed on one end of the shaft different from the end connected to the handle, a hook fixedly connected to the shaft and a closing member pivotally connected to the hook, and a control mechanism mounted on the handle and extending through the shaft and connect to the clamping portion, wherein the control mechanism controls the piv...