ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,403, issued on March 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Ligation clip loading device" was invented by Saumya Banerjee (Southington, Conn.), Jacob C. Baril (Norwalk, Conn.), Matthew A. Dinino (Newington, Conn.), Justin J. Thomas (New Haven, Conn.) and Eric Brown (Madison, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ligation clip loading device includes a cannula including a cannula body and an instrument lumen extending through a longitudinal axis of the cannula body, and a stack of ligation clips axially arranged about the instrument lumen. The ligation clips are accessible through a series of slots allowing for loading o...