US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Sept. 2 for "Apparatus and method for electrosurgery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,935, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for electrosurgery" was invented by Danilo Legaspi (Hachioji, Japan), Tsuyoshi Hayashida (Hachioji, Japan) and Yoshitaka Honda (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, device and treatment system for sealing living tissue using high frequency electrical energy provided to the living tissue by an end effector of a treatment instrument applies N cycles (N=natural number from 1 to 5, inclusive) of electrical energy to the living tissue by increasing, in each cycle, an amount of the high frequency electrical energy provided...