US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 9 for "Surgical generator for ultrasonic and electrosurgical devices" (Ohio, New York, California, New Mexico, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,967, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical generator for ultrasonic and electrosurgical devices" was invented by Eitan T. Wiener (Cincinnati), Jeffrey L. Aldridge (Lebanon, Ohio), Brian T. Noyes (Yonkers, N.Y.), Jeffrey D. Messerly (Cincinnati), James R. Giordano (Milford, Ohio), Robert J. Beetel III (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan J. Price (Albuquerque, N.M.), Matthew C. Miller (Cincinnati), Jeffrey P. Wiley (Milford, Ohio), Daniel W. Price (Loveland, Ohio), Robert L. Koch Jr. (Cincinnati), Joseph A. Brotz (Oshkosh, Wis.) and John E. Hein (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A...