US Patent Issued to Misonix on April 7 for "Ultrasonic surgical instrument with probe at angle to handpiece" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,091, issued on April 7, was assigned to Misonix LLC (Farmingdale, N.Y.).

"Ultrasonic surgical instrument with probe at angle to handpiece" was invented by Dan Voic (Cedar Grove, N.J.), Alexander Darian (Brightwaters, N.Y.), Scott Isola (Deer Park, N.Y.) and Lawrence Agtuca (Holbrook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a handpiece casing and an electromechanical transducer assembly disposed inside the handpiece casing, where the transducer assembly includes a front driver and the transducer assembly has a longitudinal axis. A probe is operatively connected to the front driver at an acute ang...