US Patent Issued to ERBE Elektromedizin on Aug. 25 for "Active electrosurgical instrument" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,487, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH (Tuebingen, Germany).

"Active electrosurgical instrument" was invented by Peter Selig (Nehren, Germany) and Konstantin Dornhof (Horb am Neckar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electrosurgical instrument (11) according to the invention comprises at least one electrode (15, 16) for electrically acting on biological tissue. The electrode is coupled with a radio frequency generator (20) that is arranged in direct proximity of electrode (15) and/or (16). The radio frequency generator oscillates in a self-controlled manner with a frequency between 100 kHz and 10 MH...