ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,265, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Dual irrigating bipolar forceps" was invented by Matthew A. Hanlon (O'fallon, Mo.) and Matthew P. LaConte (Maryland Heights, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bipolar electrosurgical forceps are provided with dual irrigating tubes that deliver irrigating liquid to the opposed surfaces of the tips of the forceps to prevent the sticking of body tissue to the tips. To reduce the manufacturing costs of the forceps and enable the forceps to be single use, disposable forceps, each tube of the dual irrigating tools is a plastic tube adhered along one of the opposing s...