US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Extractor cannula securement and processing" (Indiana, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,021, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Extractor cannula securement and processing" was invented by James Andrew Bartholomai (Louisville, Ky.), Shannon Jones (Greenwood, Ind.), Johnny P. Smith (Worthington, Ind.), Lyle Hundley (Bloomington, Ind.), Kristen M. Bunch (Bloomington, Ind.) and Carmen Rosporski (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical retrieval device for retrieving stones, calculi, and the like from various organs and passages may comprising an elongated member, and a first wire and a second wire that forms a retrieval basket. The wires forming the b...