US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 17 for "Systems and methods for estimating tissue parameters using surgical devices" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,423, issued on June 17, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for estimating tissue parameters using surgical devices" was invented by Robert H. Wham (Boulder, Colo.) and Jing Zhao (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for estimating tissue parameters, includes collecting data, from a surgical system including an instrument and an energy source, the data including at least one electrical parameter associated with delivering energy from the instrument to tissue, communicating the data to at least one machine learning algorithm, determining, using the at least one m...