US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Feb. 4 for "Generator for use with an ultrasonic surgical instrument" (Ohio, Washington, South Carolina, New York, California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,224, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Generator for use with an ultrasonic surgical instrument" was invented by Jeffrey D. Messerly (Cincinnati), Eitan T. Wiener (Loveland, Ohio), Brian T. Noyes (Yonkers, N.Y.), Jeffrey L. Aldridge (Lebanon, Ohio), James R. Giordano (Milford, Ohio), Robert J. Beetel III (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel J. Abbott (Maple Valley, Wash.), Foster B. Stulen (Johns Island, S.C.), Matthew C. Miller (Cincinnati), Aaron C. Voegele (Loveland, Ohio), Jeffrey P. Wiley (Milford, Ohio), Nathan J. Price (Albuquerque, N.M.), Daniel W. Price (Loveland, Ohio) and Robert L. Koch Jr. (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* re...