Patents Assigned to Starion Instruments, Corp.
  • Suture welding device
    Patent number: 6866672
    Abstract: Devices for welding suture segments in lieu of tying knots in sutures applied during endoscopic surgery. The devices provide for snaring loose suture ends and drawing the suture ends into a space between heating surfaces, and provide for closing the heating surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Starion Instruments, Corp.
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Mollenauer, Theodore Kucklick
  • Power supply for identification and control of electrical surgical tools
    Publication number: 20040082944
    Abstract: An electronic circuit for identifying an electrical surgical tool and for providing a selectable constant current appropriate to the identified electrical surgical tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: Starion Instruments Corp.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Howell
  • Combined dissecting, cauterizing, and stapling device
    Publication number: 20030144660
    Abstract: A medical device for simultaneously cutting tissue with a heating element, cauterizing the tissue with sealing elements, and stapling the tissue together. The heating elements comprise bipolar RF electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: Starion Instruments Corp.
    Inventor: Kenneth H. Mollenauer