US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on July 28 for "Electrosurgical instrument with light accumulator end effector and fiber optics" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,911, issued on July 28, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Electrosurgical instrument with light accumulator end effector and fiber optics" was invented by Chad P. Boudreaux (Cincinnati), Narendran Narasimhan (Cincinnati) and Thomas J. Watson (Over, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a shaft assembly having a distal end and an end effector at the distal end of the shaft assembly. The end effector includes a first jaw and a second jaw movably coupled relative to the first jaw for clamping tissue therebetween. The end effector also includes at least one lightbox for de...