ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,554, issued on July 21, was assigned to Innolcon Medical Technology (Suzhou) Col. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).
"Multifunctional surgical instrument" was invented by Ke Liu (Suzhou, China), Xiaohe Yuan (Suzhou, China), Zhenzhong Liu (Suzhou, China), Zhongyu Yan (Suzhou, China) and Wei Luo (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a multifunctional surgical instrument, including a housing, a trigger provided on the housing, an ultrasonic transducer provided inside the housing, and a blade shaft assembly that transmits ultrasonic energy generated by the ultrasonic transducer and electrical energy generated by the system...