ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,975, issued on March 25, was assigned to Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH (Tuebingen, Germany).
"Operating a surgical instrument with tissue recognition" was invented by Klaus Fischer (Nagold, Germany), Alexander Neugebauer (Moessingen, Germany) and Dominik Spether (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical device for recognizing tissue by means of spectral analysis of the light generated at an electrode. An acoustic or optical indicator device displays the tissue type permanently or when detecting certain tissue. Indicators, in particular optical indicators, are arranged in the application field of view, so as to ...