ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,587, issued on May 13, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).
"Clip deployment tool and associated methods" was invented by James David Hughett Sr. (Monroe, Ga.), Keith Edward Martin (Dayton, Ohio), Kenneth Lance Miller (Hamilton, Ohio) and Michael Dolgin (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laparoscopic device comprising: (a) a housing operatively coupled to a first control and a second control; (b) an end effector operatively coupled to the first control, the end effector comprising a first component and a second component selectively repositionable with respect to one another within an X-Y plane, the end effector als...