US Patent Issued to Illumix Surgical on Sept. 1 for "Malleable retractor" (Dutch, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,612, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Illumix Surgical (Bright's Grove, Canada).

"Malleable retractor" was invented by Anil Duggal (Lexington, Ky.), Paul Dobrovolskis (Ancaster, Canada), Roel H Kusters (Sittard, Netherlands) and Edsger Constant Pieter Smits (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of claimed subject matter are directed to a malleable and integrally illuminated surgical retractor. In an embodiment, a malleable steel strip, having a thickness approximately in the range of 0.5-1.0 mm, may form a substrate. An elastically deformable layer, such as a polymeric layer, may be secured to the malle...