US Patent Issued to Conmed on March 31 for "Continuous rotation of a surgical instrument" (Colorado, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,942, issued on March 31, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.).

"Continuous rotation of a surgical instrument" was invented by Mason Williams (Centennial, Colo.) and Julia Concelman (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous rotation assembly that may be positioned in the housing of an electrosurgical device to maintain electrical continuity between an electrosurgical power source and an electrosurgical implement positioned at the end of a rotatable shaft. A stator is positioned about the shaft and fixed against rotation and includes a pair of rings that are electrically isolated from each other. A rot...