US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 14 for "Ultrasonic surgical instrument with a shaft assembly and elongated waveguide support arrangement" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,234, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Ultrasonic surgical instrument with a shaft assembly and elongated waveguide support arrangement" 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 having an ultrasonic blade, an ultrasonic transducer assembly, and a shaft assembly. The shaft assembly includes a tube, and an waveguide. The waveguide is received within the tube and is acoustically connected betwee...