ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,126, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Monitoring of manufacturing life-cycle" was invented by Patrick L. Creamer (New Orleans), Morgan R. Hunter (Cincinnati), Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a surgical end effector for use with a surgical instrument. The surgical end effector comprises a jaw, and a staple cartridge seatable in the jaw. The staple cartridge comprises a sensor array configured to take measurements corresponding to a parameter associated with a function of the surgical instrument, a pr...