ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,289, issued on March 24, was assigned to Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC (Minneapolis).
"Enhanced vision in electrosurgery" was invented by Mohammad Miri (Longmont, Colo.), Prakash Manley (Arvada, Colo.), Christopher T. Brown (Boulder, Colo.) and Anjali Dhiman (Commerce City, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical device vision system, comprising at least one of one or more fiber-optic cables and/or digital image sensor positioned to capture a corresponding one or more views of the surgical site in proximity to a distal tip portion of an electrosurgical device, and a processor configured to utilize multiple images cap...