ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,086, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Ultrasonic surgical handpiece assembly" was invented by Megan James (Portage, Mich.), Cathal Heavey (Midleton, Ireland), Guillaume Gras (Muenchenbuchsee, Switzerland) and Conor McCarthy (County Cork, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubing connector for integrally connecting an irrigation line, an aspiration line, and a conductor to a proximal portion of an ultrasonic surgical handpiece. The tubing connector includes a base including proximal and distal regions. First and second lumens through the base each extends from the proximal region to the distal ...