US Patent Issued to Conmed on Sept. 23 for "Elongated suction attachment for use with a surgical instrument that may generate smoke" (Idaho, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,680, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).

"Elongated suction attachment for use with a surgical instrument that may generate smoke" was invented by Noah Mark Minskoff (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nathan Andrew Terry (Lowman, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to techniques or processes for managing surgical smoke. In one embodiment a suction apparatus evacuates the surgical smoke. For example, the suction apparatus may be arranged adjacent to an electrocautery electrode, which may generate smoke during operation, for evacuating smoke from a surgical site."

The patent was filed on Jan. ...