ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,553, issued on July 21, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).
"Cutting assembly and a drive assembly for a surgical instrument" was invented by Conor O'Shea (Innishannon, Ireland), Jonathan Browne (Dublin), Emma O'carroll (Parteen, Ireland), Adrian Paul O'Heney (Cork, Ireland), Colin Langan (Midleton, Ireland), Alan Peter Whitford (Drogheda, Ireland) and Damian Michael Curtin (Kerry, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting assembly for a surgical instrument including an outer hub, an outer tube, a cutting implement, and a drive hub. A retention flange of the drive hub is arranged to retai...