US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 15 for "Restricted usage features for surgical instrument" (Washington, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,339, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Restricted usage features for surgical instrument" was invented by David C. Groene (Cincinnati) and Benjamin J. Danziger (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for managing surgical instruments throughout their lifecycle include disabling a usage based device lockout and providing notifications for devices nearing a usage based lockout. A device adaptor connected inline between a surgical instrument and a power source can be configured to alter a device EEPROM to allow for additional device usage despite a usage ...