US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on Oct. 21 for "Electrosurgical devices, methods of use, and methods of manufacture" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,947, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Electrosurgical devices, methods of use, and methods of manufacture" was invented by Laura Constance Frey (Belfast, Ireland), Scott McFarland (Greenisland, Ireland), Paul Sheridan (Wexford, Ireland), Micheal Burke (Cork, Ireland) and Fernando Erismann (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, an electrosurgical device includes a housing defining an interior bore, a shaft coupled to the housing, and an electrosurgical electrode coupled to the shaft. The shaft extends distally from the interior bore of the housing...