US Patent Issued to GYRUS ACMI on July 1 for "Electrosurgical device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,067, issued on July 1, was assigned to GYRUS ACMI INC. (Bartlett, Tenn.).

"Electrosurgical device" was invented by Neill Tomas Brennan (Cardiff, Great Britain) and Lewis Meurig Jones (Cardiff, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument having an end effector mounted on the end of an elongate shaft extending from a handle. The end-effector is capable of different operations, including grasping, cutting, and sealing and/or coagulating tissue, and one of the operations is controlled by a trigger mechanism contained within the handle. In some embodiments, the end effector includes a pair of curved jaw members and b...