ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,051, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Electrosurgical system, electrosurgical generator, and method of operating an electrosurgical system" was invented by Daniel Ramin (Nuthetal, Germany), Stefan Dietrich (Potsdam, Germany) and Thomas Faehsing (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical system, including: an electrosurgical generator, and an electrosurgical instrument configured to connect to the electrosurgical generator through a three-pin connector; wherein the electrosurgical instrument includes an electrosurgical electrode connected to a first pin of the three-pin...