US Patent Issued to SpineGuard, Confident ABC on Aug. 4 for "Electrical rotating cutting instruments and systems" (Singaporean, Israeli, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,189, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SpineGuard (Vincennes, France) and Confident ABC Ltd. (Afula, Israel).

"Electrical rotating cutting instruments and systems" was invented by Olivier Frezal (Tarnos, France), Roy Zilberman (Qaaddarim, Israel), Ulrich Schraudolph (Singapore), Anbarasan Duraisamy (Singapore) and Yechiam Hantman (Savyon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating cutting instrument (20) is provided that includes a proximal electrically-conductive shank (24), configured to receive torque. An electrically-conductive outer electrode (26) includes an electrically-conductive distal end portion (28) that is shaped so...