ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,267, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH (Tuebingen, Germany).
"Cutting instrument" was invented by David Loeser (Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument (10) that is usable for tissue fusion and cutting includes a counter support (22) configured as a thin membrane that is assigned to a cutting electrode (17) arranged between two electrode pairs. The thin membrane is spanned in a frame (25) on which it is held with its circumferential surface in a substance bond manner. The circumferential surface thereby extends in an angle, preferably in a right angle, relative to the coagu...