US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 20 for "Surgical systems and methods for component cooling while warming fluid to be introduced during a surgical procedure" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,109, issued on May 20, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical systems and methods for component cooling while warming fluid to be introduced during a surgical procedure" was invented by Nikolai D. Begg (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a fluid-delivery device configured to deliver fluid to a surgical site, a surgical instrument including a heat-generating component, and a fluid inflow path defined from a fluid source to the fluid-delivery device to provide fluid to the fluid-delivery device for delivery to the surgical site. At least a portion of the fluid inflow path is th...