ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,296, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Ultrasonic surgical instrument blades" was invented by Galen C. Robertson (Apex, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical instrument including an ultrasonically actuated blade or end effector having a treatment portion. The blade can define a central axis and at least one axis which is transverse to the central axis, wherein the transverse axis can lie within a plane which is perpendicular, or normal, to the longitudinal axis and can define a cross-section of the treatment portion. Such a cross-section can include a central portion...