US Patent Issued to Microline Surgical on Dec. 16 for "Forceps having removable tips" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,118, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microline Surgical Inc. (Beverly, Mass.).

"Forceps having removable tips" was invented by Sharad H. Joshi (Hopkinton, Mass.), Michael Moniz (Waltham, Mass.), Michael Bentwood (Plymouth, N.H.), Alan Radcliffe (Burlington, Mass.) and Shekhar Nimkar (Swampscott, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic forceps system includes a handle including a pair of pivotable arms distally extending from a proximal end of the handle, at least one arm of the pair of arms having an electrically-conductive arm element connectable to a power source, wherein each arm of the pair of arms comprises a respe...