ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,859, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INSIGHTFUL INSTRUMENTS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Systems for incising tissue" was invented by Michael W. Wiltberger (Santa Clara, Calif.), Phillip Gooding (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dan E. Andersen (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongate electrode is configured to flex and generate plasma to incise tissue. An electrical energy source operatively coupled to the electrode is configured to provide electrical energy to the electrode to generate the plasma. A tensioning element is operatively coupled to the elongate electrode. The tensioning element can be configured to pr...