ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,164, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Knife lockout for electrosurgical forceps" was invented by Ravi Sekhar Gutti (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical forceps includes first and second shafts configured to rotate about a pivot to move jaw members between an open position and a closed position. A knife deployment mechanism is operably coupled to a knife and is configured to move the knife between a retracted position and an extended position. A knife lockout is configured to move between a first position wherein the jaw members are in the open position and movement of th...