US Patent Issued to Famis Devices on Nov. 3 for "Enhanced trocar" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,589, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Famis Devices LLC (Schoolcraft, Mich.).

"Enhanced trocar" was invented by Michael Jeffrey Leinwand (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Jorden Scott Kegeler (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Peter Allen Gustafson (Schoolcraft, Mich.) and Graham Lark Peterson (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced trocar for laparoscopic surgery has a proximal end, a distal end, and a tubular trocar body connecting and extending between the ends. The trocar body is shaped and sized to receive inline and retain therein tissue isolated and divided during a laparoscopic surgical procedure, to permit a surgeon to remove such tissue fro...