US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 26 for "Wearable support structures for medical devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,121, issued on May 26, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Wearable support structures for medical devices" was invented by Nikhil M. Murdeshwar (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for supporting a surgical instrument relative to a body of a user can comprise a body-mountable portion for supporting an arm of the user, the body-mountable portion comprising a forearm support, an instrument support connected to the body-mountable portion to hold a handle of the surgical instrument proximate the forearm support, and a positioning device configured to ho...