Owner Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.

Inventors Weiner, Eitan T.; Aldridge, Jeffrey L.; Noyes, Brian T.; Messerly, Jeffrey D.; Giordano, James R.; Beetel, Robert J.; Price, Nathan J.; Stulen, Foster B.; Miller, Matthew C.; Wiley, Jeffrey P.; Price, Daniel W.; Koch, Robert L.; Brotz, Joseph A.; Hein, John E.; Voegele, Aaron C.; Abbott, Daniel J.; Killinger, Scott B.; Davison, Mark A.; Yates, David C.; Monson, Gavin M.

Agent Freehills

Pub. Number AU-A-2010303385

PCT Pub. Number WO2011/044338

Priority 61/250,217 09.10.09 US; 12/896,360 01.10.10 US; 12/896,451 01.10.10 US; 12/896,479 01.10.10 US; 12/896,384 01.10.10 US; 12/896,470 01.10.10 US; 12/896,467 01.10.10 US; 12/896,345 01.10.10 US

Filing date 7 October 2010

Wipo publication date 14 April 2011

A61B 17/32 (2006.01) Surgery - Surgical cutting instruments

A61B 18/12 (2006.01) Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body - by passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current

A61B 18/14 (2006.01) Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body - Probes or electrodes therefor

A61N 7/02 (2006.01) Ultrasound therapy

B06B 1/02 (2006.01) Processes or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic frequency - making use of electrical energy