US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 9 for "Surgical forceps" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,022, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical forceps" was invented by Ryan C. Artale (Crested Butte, Colo.), Jeffrey M. Roy (Boulder, Colo.), Tony Moua (Thornton, Colo.), Dennis W. Butcher (Longmont, Colo.), William J. Dickhans (Longmont, Colo.), Daniel A. Joseph (Golden, Colo.), Luke Waaler (Longmont, Colo.), Cynthia M. Perry (Golden, Colo.) and Meghan Collins Long (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar electrosurgical instrument includes first and second shafts each having a jaw member extending from its distal end. Each jaw member is adapted to connect to a source of electros...