US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 21 for "Combination ultrasonic and electrosurgical instrument with adjustable energy modalities and method for limiting blade temperature" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,577, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Combination ultrasonic and electrosurgical instrument with adjustable energy modalities and method for limiting blade temperature" was invented by Cameron R. Nott (Loveland, Ohio) and Amrita S. Sawhney (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical instrument and method of limiting an ultrasonic blade temperature includes adjusting at least one power parameter of the ultrasonic energy in response to reaching a predetermined frequency parameter change threshold in the ultrasonic blade limiting the temperature of the ultrasonic blad...