US Patent Issued to EXIMIS SURGICAL on March 3 for "Containment bag" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,392, issued on March 3, was assigned to EXIMIS SURGICAL INC. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Containment bag" was invented by Dirk Johnson (Louisville, Colo.), Kristin D. Johnson (Louisville, Colo.), William N. Gregg (Superior, Colo.), Steven C. Rupp (Arvada, Colo.), Steve Choi (Lafayette, Colo.), Armando Garcia (Longmont, Colo.), Hana Creasy (Westminster, Colo.) and Chris Underwood (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containment bag assembly for extracting a tissue specimen comprises a bag having one or more segmenting wires, an outer tube comprising a proximal and distal end, a flexible ring configured to form a top opening o...