US Patent Issued to RIVERFIELD on June 23 for "Surgical device retracting mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,112, issued on June 23, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).

"Surgical device retracting mechanism" was invented by Koh-hei Sonoda (Fukuoka City, Japan), Shintaro Nakao (Fukuoka, Japan), Kotaro Tadano (Tokyo) and Tatsuhito Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device retracting mechanism includes a holder that holds a surgical device, a guide that guides the holder to linearly advance and retract, a locking member that locks the holder in a locking state in which the surgical device is inserted in a surgical site, and a retracting device that releases the locking state and retract the holder based on a detection...