ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,784, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Creo Medical Ltd. (Chepstow, Great Britain).

"Electrosurgical resector tool" was invented by Christopher Paul Hancock (Bath, Great Britain), Louis Turner (Chepstow, Great Britain), Patrick Burn (Chepstow, Great Britain), Malcolm White (Chepstow, Great Britain), Simon Meadowcroft (Chepstow, Great Britain), George Christian Ullrich (Chepstow, Great Britain) and David Edward Webb (Chepstow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical resector tool having an energy delivery structure that provides a plurality of operational modalities that facilitate biological tissue cutting an...