US Patent Issued to Medos International Sarl on April 14 for "Bearing assemblies for selectively coupling components" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,408, issued on April 14, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Bearing assemblies for selectively coupling components" was invented by Cory Emil (Milton, Mass.), Eric Biester (Barrington, R.I.) and Joshua Rodriguez (Raynham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bearing assemblies for selectively coupling to surgical instruments are disclosed. In one embodiment, a bearing assembly can include a housing with a cavity, a first race in the cavity that translates but does not rotate relative to the housing, bearing elements disposed in the first race that move radially in and out of a central passage of the f...