US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Aug. 5 for "Surgical instrument comprising flex circuit" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,851, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument comprising flex circuit" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Chester O. Baxter III (Loveland, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Michael J. Vendely (Lebanon, Ohio) and David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a surgical instrument is disclosed. In at least one instance, the surgical instrument comprises a shroud and the operation of the surgical instrument is modified based on input from a sensing circuit configured to sense a parameter of the shroud. In certai...