ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,760, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SHUYOU SURGICAL INSTRUMENT Co. LTD. (Huzhou, China).

"Smoke evacuation tube and telescopic smoke evacuation scalpel" was invented by Kongpei Lu (Huzhou, China) and Zuokai Yin (Huzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent relates to a smoke evacuation tube and a telescopic smoke evacuation scalpel comprising the smoke evacuation tube. The smoke evacuation tube, comprises a first sleeve (6) and a second sleeve (26). An electrode (8) is mounted inside the first sleeve front section (61), and one end of the electrode (8) protrudes from one end of the first sleeve front section (6...