US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 27 for "Surgical systems and methods leveraging an ultrasonic transducer saturation point" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,233, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical systems and methods leveraging an ultrasonic transducer saturation point" was invented by David J. Van Tol (Boulder, Colo.), Matthew S. Cowley (Frederick, Colo.), Keith W. Malang (Longmont, Colo.), Anthony B. Ross (Boulder, Colo.), Christopher A. Valentine (Longmont, Colo.), Aaron G. Mattmiller (Longmont, Colo.) and Michael B. Lyons (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical system includes an ultrasonic generator configured to provide an electrical drive signal, an ultrasonic transducer configured to receive the electrical dr...