US Patent Issued to CMR SURGICAL on May 6 for "Electrosurgical connection unit" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,304, issued on May 6, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Electrosurgical connection unit" was invented by Simon Schofield (Cambridge, Great Britain), Paul Christopher Roberts (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Gordon Thomas Deane (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal a...