ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,934, issued on April 1, was assigned to Gyrus Medical Ltd. (Cardiff, Great Britain).
"Bipolar electrosurgical instruments" was invented by Lewis Jones (Cardiff, Great Britain) and Wayne Williams (Penarth, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar surgical instrument (1) comprises a body (2), first and second opposed jaws (18, 20) located at the distal end of a shaft (10), the first jaw (18) being movable with respect to the second jaw (20) between an open position in which the first and second jaws (18, 20) are spaced apart from one another, and a closed position in which the first and second jaws (18, 20) are adjacent o...