US Patent Issued to The USA, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services on July 8 for "Inner curvature charge concentration device for tissue laceration" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,957, issued on July 8, was assigned to The USA, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Inner curvature charge concentration device for tissue laceration" was invented by Robert J. Lederman (Chevy Chase, Md.), Jaffar M. Khan (Washington) and Toby Rogers (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed monopolar and bipolar tissue lacerators can comprise a wire partially covered by electrical insulation, wherein the wire has a kink defining an inner curvature, wherein the wire is exposed through the insulation at one or two exposed regions along or near the inner curvature of the kink, ...