US Patent Issued to Pain TEQ on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus for manual extraction of a medical device" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,653, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Pain TEQ LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Apparatus for manual extraction of a medical device" was invented by Sean LaNeve (Tampa, Fla.), Dwayne Polzer (Lutz, Fla.) and Christopher Lee (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint decorticator instrument configured for single use. The joint decorticator has a metal rod affixed within a polymer sheath. The polymer sheath has a longitudinal channel configured to receive an alignment protrusion with a working channel for maintaining the joint decorticator in a proper alignment relative to the working channel. The joint decorticator may include an integrate...