US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on March 25 for "Electrosurgical system with electrically active outer surface" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,976, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Electrosurgical system with electrically active outer surface" was invented by Tyler E. McLawhorn (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical system may include a medical delivery device and an electrosurgical device to perform an electrosurgical procedure. The electrosurgical device may have a monopolar configuration. An outer surface of the medical delivery device may include a conductive portion that is part of a return path for a bipolar configuration. Current may be supplied through an active member of the ele...