ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,857, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Trocar support" was invented by Andrew Beckman (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various trocars and trocar supports are provided for allowing an insufflation port on the trocar to be coupled through the trocar support to an insufflation fluid. In one embodiment, the trocar includes a housing, a cannula extending through the housing, and an insufflation port projecting from the housing. A trocar support is provided having an opening that receives the insufflation port on the housing such that the insufflation port is unobtrusive during us...