ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,155, issued on March 18, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Methods for open dissection using sealing instrument" was invented by James D. Allen IV (Broomfield, Colo.), William D. Faulkner (Boulder, Colo.) and Duane E. Kerr (Loveland, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical system includes jaw members having a cutting element extending therebetween and a generator configured to: provide minimal power to the cutting element to maintain a pre-dissection temperature thereof; sense a change in resistance of the cutting element and ramp up power to a dissection temperature; regulate the temperature of the cu...