US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on July 14 for "Inductive power joint allowing unrestricted rotation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,216, issued on July 14, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Inductive power joint allowing unrestricted rotation" was invented by Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.) and Theodore C. Blus (Arden Hills, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user-held or otherwise supported electrosurgical device can include an endpiece, a fixed first coil or other electromagnetic energy transmitter or receiver and a rotatable second coil or other electromagnetic energy transmitter or receiver wirelessly energized by the first coil. The rotatable second coil can be affixed to a rotatable member extending distally from the endpiece...