ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,866, issued on May 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Methods and devices for performing electrosurgery" was invented by Mingxiang Xu (Wayland, Mass.), Samuel Raybin (Marlborough, Mass.), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.) and Kevin James McElwee (Franklin, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a medical system may include an instrument including an end effector for acting as a monopolar electrode. The end effector may be configured to be positioned in a body of a subject and emit radiofrequency energy towards a target area in the body. The medical system may further include a ...