ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,436, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Cauterization device for sealing pleural layers" was invented by Jordan Addison (Gilbert, Ariz.), Oladipo Peter Akerele-Ale (Phoenix), Eric Moll (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Alexander Palmer (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cauterization device includes a handpiece configured to be grasped by a user. The handpiece includes a housing, a heat control circuit, and a control switch. A cannula has a cannula lumen, a cannula side wall surrounding the cannula lumen, a cannula proximal end portion, and a cannula distal end. The cannula p...