US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on July 29 for "Method and system for model-based temperature estimation of an ultrasonic instrument" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,938, issued on July 29, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for model-based temperature estimation of an ultrasonic instrument" was invented by Berk Gonenc (San Jose, Calif.), Amirhossein Farvardin (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Boronyak (Cincinnati) and Sean Conlon (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a surgical system that includes an ultrasonic instrument with an end effector. The method determines a change in resonance frequency of the end effector while the ultrasonic instrument is either in 1) a high-power state in which the ultrasonic instrument draws a first...