US Patent Issued to Pathy Medical on June 16 for "Lighting device for handheld surgical instrument with smoke evacuation system" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,638, issued on June 16, was assigned to Pathy Medical LLC (Shelton, Conn.).

"Lighting device for handheld surgical instrument with smoke evacuation system" was invented by Vinod V. Pathy (Madison, Conn.) and Gennady Kleyman (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for attachment to a handheld electrosurgical instrument is disclosed, which includes an elongated housing having opposed proximal and distal end portions and defining an interior chamber containing a battery powered light assembly for illuminating a surgical site, the housing having at least one smoke evacuation passage that extends from an inlet loc...