US Patent Issued to Conmed on July 15 for "System and method for improved gas recirculation in surgical trocars with pneumatic sealing" (Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,346, issued on July 15, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.).

"System and method for improved gas recirculation in surgical trocars with pneumatic sealing" was invented by Ralph Stearns (Bozrah, Conn.), Kurt Azarbarzin (Fairfield, Conn.) and Timothy J. Nolan (South Salem, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for insufflation and recirculation of insufflation fluid in a surgical procedure include a control unit having a fluid pump, a supply conduit, a return fluid conduit and a pressure-controlled valve. The pressure-controlled valve is in fluid communication with an insufflation gas supply, the supply conduit and the ret...