US Patent Issued to Stichting Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis on June 30 for "Surgical instrument and surgical system" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,346, issued on June 30, was assigned to Stichting Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis (Amsterdam).

"Surgical instrument and surgical system" was invented by Theodoor Jacques Marie Ruers (Amsterdam), Henricus Josephus Cornelus Maria Sterenborg (Amsterdam) and Wouter Johannes Heerink (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument is disclosed to remove tissue, in particular unhealthy tissue or tissue containing cancer cells, from a body and to analyse the removed tissue. A tissue removal device is arranged at a distal end of the surgical instrument, wherein the distal part of the surgical ...