ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,438, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC (Minneapolis).
"Resistance level communication protocol" was invented by Mohammad Miri (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical system includes a generator and an electrosurgical device and is configured to establish two-way communication using a resistance level communication protocol. The electrosurgical device includes an electrical connector configured to receive a treatment signal and a continuous signal from the generator, an AC-DC converter configured to convert the continuous signal, a processor configured to receive the converted co...