US 12,201,287 B2
Retractor
Jeffrey Ralph Swift, Lawrence, MA (US)
Assigned to CooperSurgical, Inc., Trumbull, CT (US)
Filed by CooperSurgical, Inc., Trumbull, CT (US)
Filed on Mar. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/191,361.
Application 17/191,361 is a continuation of application No. 15/495,371, filed on Apr. 24, 2017, granted, now 10,966,699.
Application 15/495,371 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/171,581, filed on Jun. 2, 2016, granted, now 10,952,712.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/258,806, filed on Nov. 23, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/170,280, filed on Jun. 3, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0204926 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); A61B 90/35 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/02 (2013.01) [A61B 90/30 (2016.02); A61B 90/35 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00561 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0092 (2013.01); A61B 2090/309 (2016.02); A61B 2218/008 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An illuminated surgical retractor, comprising:
a blade;
a handle connected to the blade;
an illumination assembly comprising at least one direct light source provided on an external surface of the blade; and
a smoke evacuation channel defining a path for evacuating fluids and extending along at least a portion of the blade, wherein the path partially encloses the at least one direct light source and the at least one direct light source is positioned within the path defined by the smoke evacuation channel.