US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 30 for "Surgical instruments and systems configured to detect, analyze, and/or distinguish smoke and steam during a surgical procedure" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,941, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical instruments and systems configured to detect, analyze, and/or distinguish smoke and steam during a surgical procedure" was invented by Amanda H. Lennartz (Erie, Colo.), Daniel A. Joseph (Golden, Colo.), Jennifer R. McHenry (Denver), Cornelia F. Twomey (Longmont, Colo.), Erin E. Wehrly (Longmont, Colo.), Tracy J. Pheneger (Longmont, Colo.), David M. Garrison (Longmont, Colo.), Tyler J. Bagrosky (Arvada, Colo.), Robert H. Wham (Boulder, Colo.) and Jing Zhao (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical system includes an end effecto...