US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 4 for "Application of non-stick coatings onto jaws of electrosurgical tissue sealing instruments" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,997, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Application of non-stick coatings onto jaws of electrosurgical tissue sealing instruments" was invented by Rajanikanth Mandula (Hyderabad, India), Naveen Kanth Nelli (Ambajipeta, India), Ravi Sekhar Gutti (Hyderabad, India) and Bhargav Sarma Yellayi (Hyderabad, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating assembly for coating jaws of an electrosurgical instrument includes a dispensing device and a jaw applicator. The dispensing device has a non-stick coating material contained therein and includes a discharge port. The jaw applicator includes an applicator body d...