US Patent Issued to Medtronic Advanced Energy on May 26 for "Colored vitreous enamel composition for electrosurgical tool" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,068, issued on May 26, was assigned to Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC (Minneapolis).

"Colored vitreous enamel composition for electrosurgical tool" was invented by Xiaoming Cheng (Keller, Texas), William X Siopes Jr. (Tyngsborough, Mass.) and Zahedul Huq (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A colored (viz., not black) vitreous enamel coating for an electrosurgical metal cutting blade provides heat-resistant, durable blade coloration and facilitates differentiation or discrimination between, or identification of, different blades. Different colors may be employed on different blade shapes in an array of blades, on blades used f...