US Patent Issued to Lumendi on Dec. 2 for "Medical instruments for performing minimally-invasive procedures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,955, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lumendi AG (Switzerland).

"Medical instruments for performing minimally-invasive procedures" was invented by Jonathan O'Keefe (North Attleboro, Mass.), Jeffrey Cerier (Franklin, Mass.), Amos Cruz (Wrentham, Mass.), David Rezac (Westborough, Mass.), Niklas Helmick (Allston, Mass.), Peter Aliski (Melrose, Mass.) and Andrew Caunter (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for performing a minimally-invasive procedure, the apparatus comprising: a shaft having a distal end and a proximal end; a monopolar knife assembly attached to the distal end of the shaft, the monopolar knife ass...