US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Nov. 25 for "Electrosurgical system for preventing reuse of instruments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,422, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Electrosurgical system for preventing reuse of instruments" was invented by Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.) and Teo Heng Jimmy Yang (Heath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical generator configured to generate electrical energy to be applied to biological tissue via electrical communication with an electrosurgical instrument, the electrosurgical generator including a power source configured to activate to output the electrical energy to the electrosurgical instrument, a measurement circuit configured to measure a resistive...