ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,035, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Gyrus Medical Ltd. (Cardiff, Great Britain).

"Electrosurgical system with customised control" was invented by Mathew Swaffield (Cardiff, Great Britain) and Richard Hoodless (Cardiff, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electrosurgical system for controlling an electrosurgical instrument and in particular, to an electrosurgical system which can be configured, by a user, to split control functions between a plurality of control devices such that each device is configured to exclusively control a function of an electrosurgical instrument."

The patent wa...