US Patent Issued to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS on March 17 for "Method of manufacturing a gripping surface for an end effector and surgical instrument comprising a gripping end effector" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,825, issued on March 17, was assigned to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method of manufacturing a gripping surface for an end effector and surgical instrument comprising a gripping end effector" was invented by Marco Bacchereti (Pisa, Italy), Neri Pierotti (Pisa, Italy), Giorgio Lazzari (Pisa, Italy) and Massimiliano Simi (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method by wire electro-erosion includes providing a wire electro-erosion machine having a cutting wire; mounting at least one workpiece to the wire electro-erosion machine; and making a surface micro-topography by wire electro-erosion. ...