US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 7 for "Smoke evacuation electrosurgical pencil with lighting" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,667, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Smoke evacuation electrosurgical pencil with lighting" was invented by Grant T. Sims (Boulder, Colo.), Anthony Arnopoulos (Erie, Colo.), Evan Wetzel (Eagle, Colo.), Ami Tat (Thornton, Colo.), Dexter Budrys (Issaquah, Wash.), Quinton Uradomo (Kula, Hawaii), Landon Cramer (Denver), Abhimanyu Kumar (Boulder, Colo.), Eric Swanson (Belmont, Calif.) and Aashay Choksi (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical pencil includes a handle housing. A light source is disposed within the handle housing and is configured to generate light for illuminating a...