US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 26 for "Smoke mitigation assembly for bipolar pencil" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,072, issued on May 26, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Smoke mitigation assembly for bipolar pencil" was invented by Jacob C. Baril (Norwalk, Conn.), Matthew A. Dinino (Newington, Conn.), Saumya Banerjee (Southington, Conn.), Justin J. Thomas (New Haven, Conn.) and Roy J. Pilletere (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical pencil includes a housing having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end adapted to connect to an energy source and the distal end adapted to receive an end effector assembly therein, the end effector assembly defining a surface area along a length thereof. An activatio...