MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bovie Medical Corporation (“Bovie” or the “Company”) (NYSE Amex: BVX), a manufacturer and marketer of electrosurgical products, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 8,057,468 entitled “Method to Generate a Plasma Stream for Performing Electrosurgery” to Bovie Medical Corporation.