US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on Sept. 22 for "Grasper and repository for removal of multiple kidney stone fragments" (Utah, Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,796, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Grasper and repository for removal of multiple kidney stone fragments" was invented by Serena R. Agrawal (Salt Lake City), Kaitlyn Robinson (Atlanta), Hannah Rose Kriscovich (Marietta, Ga.), D. Claire Gloeckner (Lilburn, Ga.), Matthew J. Rothberg (Atlanta), Kelsey Leeke (Atlanta), Zhihui Yin (Lilburn, Ga.) and Nicholas J. Jardine (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument for insertion into and removal of kidney stone fragments from a urinary tract of a patient body includes a flexible elongate shaft coupled with a fragmen...