US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Dec. 9 for "Surgical instrument having controllable articulation velocity" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,980, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument having controllable articulation velocity" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), David C. Yates (West Chester, Ohio) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a motor configured to drive an end effector between an unarticulated position and an articulated position, a sensor configured to detect a position of the end effector and provide a signal indicative of the position of the end effector, and a control cir...