US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 1 for "Energy-based surgical instrument for grasping, treating, and/or dividing tissue" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,065, issued on July 1, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Energy-based surgical instrument for grasping, treating, and/or dividing tissue" was invented by Stephen J. Stamm (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Purvishkumar H. Soni (Longmont, Colo.), Benjamin R. Arts (Lafayette, Colo.), Alyssa M. Sawyer (Broomfield, Colo.), Jessica E. C. Olson (Frederick, Colo.), Amir Roomi (Boulder, Colo.), Scott N. Lacosta (Lafayette, Colo.), Terry M. Duffin (Westminster, Colo.), Mark E. Renner (Longmont, Colo.), John A. Hammerland III (Arvada, Colo.) and Michelle Esponda (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a...