US Patent Issued to VIRTUAL INCISION on Oct. 20 for "Energy coupling mitigation device and related systems and methods" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,942, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VIRTUAL INCISION Corp. (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Energy coupling mitigation device and related systems and methods" was invented by Jay Carlson (Lincoln, Neb.) and Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems having an end effector, a conductor, and a disconnection mechanism associated with the at least one conductor, wherein the mechanism is configured to electrically disconnect the end effector from an energy source when not in use so as to reduce energy leakage out of the instrument. Other embodiments include various robotic surgical devices having a disconnection me...