US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 25 for "Surgical instruments and methods of manufacturing surgical instruments for performing tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and other surgical procedures" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,493, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical instruments and methods of manufacturing surgical instruments for performing tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and other surgical procedures" was invented by James D. Allen IV (Broomfield, Colo.), Victor K. Appel (Longmont, Colo.), Craig V. Krastins (Arvada, Colo.), Jessica E.C. Olson (Frederick, Colo.), Stephen J. Stamm (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Purvishkumar H. Soni (Longmont, Colo.) and Ross Tichota (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a housing, a shaft extending distally from the housing, an end effector assembly d...