US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 30 for "Surgical instruments, systems, and methods for frequency dithering control functionality" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,912, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical instruments, systems, and methods for frequency dithering control functionality" was invented by Jing Zhao (Superior, Colo.), David J. Van Tol (Boulder, Colo.), Keith W. Malang (Longmont, Colo.) and Matthew S. Cowley (Frederick, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical system includes an ultrasonic generator configured to provide an ultrasonic drive signal, and an ultrasonic transducer electrically coupled to the ultrasonic generator to receive the ultrasonic drive signal therefrom and configured, in response to the received ultraso...