ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,431, issued on April 8, was assigned to I.C. Medical Inc. (Phoenix).
"Electrosurgery handpiece/pencil with smoke evacuation" was invented by Ioan Cosmescu (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgery handpiece/pencil with smoke evacuation having features that support use at high frequencies without insulation breakdown and that provides increased efficiency of smoke evacuation during cutting and/or coagulation. The electrosurgery handpiece/pencil with smoke evacuation includes a handpiece and a planar platform located near a top of the handpiece where the planar platform has a recessed area and/or a rectangular shaped ar...