US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on July 1 for "Method and system for estimating temperature of an ultrasonic instrument" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,033, issued on July 1, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for estimating temperature of an ultrasonic instrument" was invented by Amirhossein Farvardin (San Jose, Calif.), Berk Gonenc (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Boronyak (Cincinnati), Sean Conlon (Loveland, Ohio) and Bernhard Fuerst (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a surgical system. The method determines that an ultrasonic instrument is in a low-power state The method determines a resonance frequency of an end effector of the ultrasonic instrument and determines a temperature of the end effector based...