ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,179, issued on April 21, was assigned to Genesis Medtech (USA) Inc. (Saint Louis Park, Minn.).
"Ultrasonic surgical instruments with translational capability" was invented by Shan Wan (Plymouth, Minn.) and Brendan Reimer (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical instrument having an ultrasonic resonant frequency when operatively connected to an ultrasonic generator, the surgical instrument including an ultrasonic transducer assembly adapted for converting electrical energy into longitudinal vibrational motion at an ultrasonic frequency, the transducer assembly having an axial passageway extending pro...