US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on June 17 for "Two-stage electrosurgical device for vessel sealing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,441, issued on June 17, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Two-stage electrosurgical device for vessel sealing" was invented by Huisun Wang (Maple Grove, Minn.), Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.) and Zane R. Ward (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forceps includes an end effector assembly with a first jaw having a tissue sealing surface and an electrode on the sealing surface, and a second jaw having a tissue sealing surface and an electrode on the sealing surface. The first jaw and the second jaw move between an open position and a closed position. The sealing surface of at least one of the first ...