ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,883, issued on March 17, was assigned to Creo Medical Ltd. (Chepstow, Great Britain).

"Electrosurgical apparatus for delivering RF and/or microwave energy into biological tissue" was invented by Christopher Paul Hancock (Bath, Great Britain), Rohan Monico (Chepstow, Great Britain), Steve Morris (Chepstow, Great Britain), Tom Craven (Chepstow, Great Britain) and Stefanie Pohlmann (Chepstow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical instrument for delivering electromagnetic energy to biological tissue, the instrument comprising an active tip having an electrically conductive protective hull mounted on an undersid...