US Patent Issued to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Electrosurgical devices with a single conductive tubular element for accessing anatomical structures" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,973, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Electrosurgical devices with a single conductive tubular element for accessing anatomical structures" was invented by Fionan Keady (Limerick, Ireland) and Margaret Long (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical medical device may include a conductive tubular element disposed about an outer surface of an elongate tubular member at a distal portion of the tubular member. The conductive tubular member may be delivered to a treatment site of a gastrointestinal (GI) tract of a patient and electrically activated. While el...