US Patent Issued to Conmed on Aug. 26 for "Surgical gas delivery system and method for gas sealed insufflation and recirculation with UVC sterilization" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,123, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.).

"Surgical gas delivery system and method for gas sealed insufflation and recirculation with UVC sterilization" was invented by Michael Koltz Jr. (Aurora, Colo.) and Jonathan Teymouri (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical gas delivery system is disclosed for gas sealed insufflation and recirculation during an endoscopic or laparoscopic surgical procedure, which includes a gaseous sealing manifold for communicating with a gas sealed access port, a compressor for recirculating gas through the gaseous sealing manifold, and a source of UVC irradiation f...