US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS on Dec. 9 for "Methods and systems of electrosurgical coagulation devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,020, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.) and SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems of electrosurgical coagulation devices" was invented by Rajitha Aluru (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey S. Wrana (Austin, Texas), Chris Lynn (Austin, Texas), Johnson E. Goode (Austin, Texas) and David A. Cox (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrosurgical coagulation devices. At least some of the example embodiment are methods including: applying RF energy between a first electrode and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes define an interstice; flowing an electricall...