US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on April 15 for "Pulsed closure control methods for surgical tools" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,519, issued on April 15, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Pulsed closure control methods for surgical tools" was invented by Mark Overmyer (Cincinnati), Raffaele Definis (Loveland, Ohio) and Christopher Denzinger (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing, a closure tube extending from the drive housing, and an end effector arranged at an end of the closure tube and having opposing jaws. A method of operating the surgical tool includes operating one or more motors in a first direction at a constant velocity and thereby urging the closure tube to move and actuate the...