ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,553, issued on May 27, was assigned to KVI LLC (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Synthetic electrosurgical lubricants, kits and methods regarding the same" was invented by Jessica Sue Haney Boester Linder (Belleville, Ill.) and Zachary Lincoln Strittmatter (Ballwin, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrosurgical lubricants, sterilized kits including the lubricants, methods for using the lubricants, and methods for preparing sterilized kits having the lubricants therein. Electrosurgical devices utilize a high frequency electrical current to cut and to coagulate tissue during surgery. A problem of the electrosurgical devices is that the heat...