ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,653, issued on May 13, was assigned to CREO MEDICAL Ltd. (Chepstow, Great Britain).

"Electrosurgical instrument" was invented by Christopher Paul Hancock (Bath, Great Britain), George Ullrich (Bangor, Great Britain), Steve Morris (Chepstow, Great Britain), David Webb (Bangor, Great Britain), Shaun Preston (Chepstow, Great Britain), Leif Geoghegan (Chepstow, Great Britain), Dan Crocker (Chepstow, Great Britain) and Sandra Swain (Chepstow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure presents an electrosurgical instrument for performing haemostasis by radiating microwave energy from a distal tip, where con...