ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,762, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Electrode for an electrosurgical handheld instrument" was invented by Christoph Knopf (Stockelsdorf, Germany), Christian Brockmann (Hollenstedt, Germany), Jiri Lavicka (Prerov, Czech Republic) and Petr Kominek (Prerov, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode for an electrosurgical handheld instrument consists of an electrically conductive wire, the two ends of the wire being connectable to an electrode carrier of the handheld instrument. In this case, the wire has two portions R1 and L1, which are adjacent to the two ends of the wi...