ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,426, issued on April 14, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Electrosurgical generator having an extended measurement range" was invented by Fabian Janich (Potsdam, Germany), Jens Kruger (Zeuthen, Germany), Daniel Ramin (Nuthetal, Germany) and Frank Breitsprecher (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical generator for supplying power, including an inverter for high voltage, which is led to an output to the connector of an electrosurgical instrument, a measurement system with at least one measurement monitor for a physical parameter at the output or at the electrosurgical instrument, and an ...