US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Aug. 12 for "Continuous track of tissue gap for cambering adjustment and accurate tissue measurement" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,269, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Continuous track of tissue gap for cambering adjustment and accurate tissue measurement" was invented by Zhifan Huang (Mason, Ohio) and John Bruce (Morrow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapling instrument includes first and second jaws, a sensor assembly, and a controller. The controller detects that the jaws have been actuated from closed position to open position and back to closed position, and derives, from a first signal from the sensor assembly, a current distance between the distal ends of the jaws. Upon determining firing i...