US Patent Issued to Standard Bariatrics on Dec. 23 for "Electrosurgical instruments and methods of using the same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,172, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Standard Bariatrics Inc. (Cincinnati).

"Electrosurgical instruments and methods of using the same" was invented by Trevor Jon Barton (Blue Ash, Ohio), Adam Robert Dunki-Jacobs (Cincinnati), Robert Taylor Means III (Cincinnati) and Jonathan Richard Thompson (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include an end effector including an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and an anvil face positionable on the first side of an anatomical structure, a cartridge operably configured to house a plurality of staples, the cartridge comprising a first end, a second end, and a cartr...