US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on July 15 for "Electrosurgical instruments and connections thereto" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,374, issued on July 15, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Electrosurgical instruments and connections thereto" was invented by John Brustad (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Zoran Falkenstein (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Benjamin Linville-Engler (Irvine, Calif.), Matthew Wixey (San Jose, Calif.), Gary Johnson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Patrick Elliott (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical instrument includes jaws having an electrode configuration utilized to electrically modify tissue in contact with one or more electrodes. The...