US Patent Issued to NOVELRAD on March 17 for "Suturing systems and components thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,827, issued on March 17, was assigned to NOVELRAD LTD. (M.P. Hefer, Israel).

"Suturing systems and components thereof" was invented by Shachar Rotem (M.P. Hefer, Israel), Netanel Sharabani (Rishpon, Israel) and Ori Goldor (Amikam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive mechanism for operating a suturing mechanism includes a user input displaceable through a range of motion and a linkage mechanically associated with the user input and with a shuttle transmitter of the suturing mechanism. The linkage converts displacements of the user input unidirectionally or bidirectionally into a sequence of operations of the shuttle transmi...