US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Dec. 2 for "Surgical instrument with adaptive configuration control" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,897, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument with adaptive configuration control" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (New Vienna, Ohio) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument receives an indication to provide adaptive control of surgical instrument functions. The indication may indicate to provide adaptable staple height operating range, to control motors associated with tissue compression, and/or to operate using the operational parameters associated with previous surgical procedures. The surgical instrument may determine...