US Patent Issued to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on July 21 for "Surgical trainer with mechanical feedback" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,797, issued on July 21, was assigned to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (Lubbock, Texas).

"Surgical trainer with mechanical feedback" was invented by Paul Egan (Lubbock, Texas), Travis Reiss (Porter, Texas), Kyle Fenn (Argyle, Texas) and Catherine A. Ronaghan (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical training system, method, and apparatus comprise a biomaterial, a first clamp configured to engage the biomaterial and a second clamp configured to engage the biomaterial, at least one actuator operably connected to at least one of the first clamp and the second clamp wherein the at least one actuator is configured to impart ...