US Patent Issued to Medtronic Advanced Energy on Oct. 14 for "Large area hemostasis with vessel sealing" (New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,264, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC (Minneapolis).

"Large area hemostasis with vessel sealing" was invented by Alexander J. Segit (Portsmouth, N.H.), Steven Ek (Portsmouth, N.H.), James E. Dunning (Boulder, Colo.), Brian Lane (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Erin E. Wehrly (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tools, systems, and methods described herein provide multiple treatments with a reduced number of tools. A single tool as described herein can be used to provide both clamping and sealing treatment modes."

The patent was filed on June 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/348,690.

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