US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on June 16 for "Breach detection in bipolar electrosurgical instrument sheath" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,600, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Breach detection in bipolar electrosurgical instrument sheath" was invented by Duane W. Marion (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Kyle W. Clements (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zahi P. Hakim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew D. Rauch (San Francisco) and Ann Yadlowsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided to detect a breach of an insulative sheath in a bipolar electrosurgical instrument the system including: a first pulse detection circuit to detect a first high frequency (HF) signal component of a HF signal conducted on a lead of th...