ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,341, issued on March 18, was assigned to INSIGHTFUL INSTRUMENTS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods for incising tissue" was invented by Michael Wiltberger (Santa Clara, Calif.), Phillip Gooding (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dan Andersen (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for incising tissue with a plasma comprises an elongate electrode configured to incise the tissue along a tissue incision profile and a tissue contact element configured to shape the tissue, which comprises one or more of a channel or a protrusion to form one or more of a corresponding protrusion or indentation in a tissue surface while the ...