US Patent Issued to AtriCure on Oct. 27 for "Expandable spacemaker and related methods" (Ohio, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,197, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"Expandable spacemaker and related methods" was invented by Adam Harp (Cincinnati), Jacob Luisi (Cincinnati), Matthew Monti (Cincinnati), Salvatore Privitera (Mason, Ohio) and John Wesley (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical instruments and devices for creating surgical working spaces and related methods are disclosed. An example surgical spacemaking device may include surgical spacemaking device an elongated connecting portion and an expandable spacemaking portion disposed distally on the connecting portion. The spacemaking portion may include an...