US Patent Issued to Ergosurgical Group on Sept. 22 for "Grip for a needle driver and methods of manufacture and use thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,780, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ergosurgical Group Corp. (Puerto Rico).

"Grip for a needle driver and methods of manufacture and use thereof" was invented by Scott Seligman (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved grip for a needle driver is disclosed. The grip includes an upper jaw including an upper roller and a lower jaw including a lower roller, and includes a guard that is distributed across the jaws that prevents a needle and/or suture from entering a non-grasping portion of the grip. The grip also includes a shifting feature that is distributed across at least one of the jaws and at least one of...