US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 3 for "Surgical grasper with surgical smoke evacuation and variable filtration" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,667, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical grasper with surgical smoke evacuation and variable filtration" was invented by Garrett P. Ebersole (Hamden, Conn.) and Jacob C. Baril (Norwalk, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical grasper configured to evacuate fluids from a surgical site includes a housing defining an interior cavity and an elongated shaft extending distally from the housing and defining a lumen in fluid communication with the interior cavity defined by the housing. The surgical grasper also includes a distal cap disposed at a distal end of the elongated shaft and an end eff...