ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,143, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Universal surgical footswitch toggling" was invented by Henry D. Cook (Lyons, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical system includes an electrosurgical generator having a radio frequency source configured to operate in a plurality of modes and a controller configured to control the radio frequency source to output a radio frequency waveform corresponding to a mode from the plurality of modes. The system also includes a footswitch assembly coupled to the electrosurgical generator. The footswitch assembly includes a footswitch in communication wit...