US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 17 for "Surgical dilators and assemblies and methods thereof" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,671, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical dilators and assemblies and methods thereof" was invented by Nathan J. Knutson (Long Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes surgical dilators including a multi-faceted shaped tip and methods of use associated therewith."

The patent was filed on Sept. 16, 2021, under Application No. 17/476,510.

*For further information, including images, charts and tables, please visit: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=12551671...