US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE on March 18 for "Electrode instrument and resectoscope with gripping function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,157, issued on March 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Electrode instrument and resectoscope with gripping function" was invented by Christian Brockmann (Hollenstedt, Germany) and Hannes Miersch (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode instrument for use in a resectoscope, the electrode instrument having an elongate shaft portion with two support arms through which a conductor extends that forms an electrode at the distal end of the electrode instrument that can be subjected to high-frequency current and is arranged between the distal ends of the support arms, wherein at least on...