US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 16 for "Jaw member, end effector assembly, and method of manufacturing a jaw member of an electrosurgical instrument" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,119, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Jaw member, end effector assembly, and method of manufacturing a jaw member of an electrosurgical instrument" was invented by Dylan R. Kingsley (Broomfield, Colo.), Christopher T. Tschudy (Arvada, Colo.), Jason G. Weihe (Longmont, Colo.), Zachary S. Heiliger (Nederland, Colo.), William R. Whitney (Boulder, Colo.), Curtis M. Siebenaller (Frederick, Colo.) and Haralambos P. Apostolopoulos (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jaw member of a surgical instrument includes a structural frame, an insulative spacer supported on the structural frame, an e...