US Patent Issued to Conmed on Aug. 18 for "Uterine manipulator" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,404, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.).

"Uterine manipulator" was invented by Ashley Holbrooks (New Hartford, N.Y.), Rachelle D. Fitzgerald (Massapequa, N.Y.), Christopher Yantsides (Whitesboro, N.Y.), David Hughes (Rome, N.Y.), Xiao Wu (North Chili, N.Y.) and Irtiza Ali (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A uterine manipulator device includes: an elongated cannulated tube comprising a proximal end and a distal end; a cervical cup having a top proximal portion of a first diameter and a base distal portion of a second smaller diameter, wherein: the base distal portion includes a hole formed the...