ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,722, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus and method for electrosurgery" was invented by Satoshi Honda (Hachioji, Japan), Shunsuke Matsui (Hachioji, Japan), Danilo Legaspi (Hachioji, Japan) and Akinori Kabaya (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for sealing biological tissue using high frequency electrical energy determines a first-instance size of the biological tissue based on an initial impedance determination and applies electrical energy to the biological tissue based on the first-instance size determination, during which an in-process parameter is detected...