ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,031, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to LINUS VENTURES LLC (Pasadena, Calif.).
"Surgical apparatus" was invented by Paul Kaloostian (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical apparatus can include a central body that houses a group of different surgical instruments, wherein each surgical instrument among the group of different surgical instruments retracts or deploys from a respective pathway within the central body. The surgical apparatus can also include one or more buttons among a group of buttons located on a thumb side of the central body, such that a surgical instrument among the different surgical instrument...