US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Feb. 3 for "Ultrasonic transducer alignment of an articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,135, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Ultrasonic transducer alignment of an articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument" was invented by Brian D. Black (Loveland, Ohio), Morgan R. Hunter (Cincinnati) and Karl W. Mueller (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical instrument and method of deflecting an end effector includes the end effector having an ultrasonic blade, a shaft assembly defining a longitudinal axis, and a body assembly. The shaft assembly has an articulation section configured to articulate from a straight configuration to an articulated configurati...