US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 11 for "Rotation assembly for energy-based surgical instruments" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,419, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Rotation assembly for energy-based surgical instruments" was invented by Amir Roomi (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a movable handle movable relative a housing to manipulate an end effector assembly, and a rotation assembly. The rotation assembly includes first and second bodies, where one of the bodies is fixedly disposed within a housing and the other body is rotatably disposed within the housing and fixedly disposed about a shaft. An inner contact ring is fixedly disposed on the first body and includes a first ele...