US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 30 for "Devices, systems, and methods for trans-vaginal, ultrasound-guided hysteroscopic surgical procedures" (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,986, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for trans-vaginal, ultrasound-guided hysteroscopic surgical procedures" was invented by Nikolai D. Begg (Wellesley, Mass.), Chad A. Pickering (Woburn, Mass.), Lisa M. Quealy (Dracut, Mass.), Jordan A. Whisler (Brookline, Mass.), Dalia P. Leibowitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Timothy J. Wood (Wilmington, Mass.), Alyssa P. Brown (Pittsburgh), Bradley T. Marcinek (Westford, Mass.) and Scott J. Prior (Branford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes an ultrasound device and a surgical instrument. The ultrasound device i...