US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Feb. 3 for "Electrosurgical smoke evacuation for surgical procedures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,166, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Electrosurgical smoke evacuation for surgical procedures" was invented by Ann Yadlowsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mathew P. Nussbaum (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples of the disclosed subject matter include systems and methods to control a flowrate of a smoke evacuation system. In one example, a smoke-evacuation system includes an electrosurgical a unit (ESU) to provide electrical power to an electrosurgical tool within a surgical site. A monitoring device measures one or more electrical parameters from the ele...