US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 13 for "Ultrasonic surgical instrument with a fixed transducer grounding" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,607, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Ultrasonic surgical instrument with a fixed transducer grounding" was invented by Brian D. Black (Loveland, Ohio), Matthew T. Stone (Mason, Ohio), Andrew T. Beckman (Cincinnati) and Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes an end effector including an ultrasonic blade, an ultrasonic waveguide, an ultrasonic transducer assembly, and a carrier. The acoustic waveguide includes at least a proximal portion thereof extending along a longitudinal axis. The ultrasonic transducer assembly incl...