ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,892, issued on June 24, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and system for supporting HF and/or US surgical procedures and software program product" was invented by Jens Kruger (Eichwalde, Germany) and Fabian Janich (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method and a system for supporting HF and/or US surgical procedures which are carried out using a plurality of HF and/or US surgical instruments. HF and/or US generators are capable of supplying HF and/or US power to the surgical instruments in HF and/or US modes with predetermined operating parameter sets. The genera...