US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on Aug. 11 for "Rotary surgical cutting tool and related accessories" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,428, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Rotary surgical cutting tool and related accessories" was invented by Aidan Vaughan (Cork City, Ireland), Eoin Connolly (Dublin), David Eustace (Carrigrohane, Ireland) and Conor O'Shea (Innishannon, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical handpiece system (10) includes a high-speed surgical bur assembly (102) and a surgical handpiece assembly (104). The high-speed surgical bur assembly has a nose tube (17, 106) and a driveshaft (24, 110) at least partially disposed within the nose tube. A cutting tool (18, 114) is coupled to ...