ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,488, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Electrosurgical generator with modular output socket for electrosurgical instrument" was invented by Wolfgang Kuhne (Schildow, Germany), Daniel Ramin (Nuthetal, Germany) and Benjamin Trumpold-Veselic (Teltow, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical generator including housing and an internal circuitry to generate a high-frequency voltage and to output the generated high-frequency voltage to an electrosurgical instrument, further including at least one output socket for connection of a plug of the electrosurgical instrument. The ou...