US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 3 for "System and method for cutting tissue using electrosurgical tissue sealing instrument" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,661, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for cutting tissue using electrosurgical tissue sealing instrument" was invented by James D. Allen IV (Broomfield, Colo.), William D. Faulkner (Boulder, Colo.) and Duane E. Kerr (Loveland, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical device includes jaw members, a thermal cutting element coupled to one of the jaw members. When the jaw members are in an approximated position, power is delivered to the thermal cutting element to maintain the temperature of the thermal cutting element at an operating temperature for cutting sealed tissue ...