US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 1 for "Surgical instrument with selectively disengageable threaded drive systems" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,014, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument with selectively disengageable threaded drive systems" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Chester O. Baxter III (Loveland, Ohio), Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati), David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument including a surgical end effector and a threaded rotary input shaft. An actuator member is in operable engagement with the surgical end effector and is in selective threaded engagement with the threaded rotary input shaft such that wh...