US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on June 10 for "Mechanisms for compensating for battery pack failure in powered surgical instruments" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,579, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Mechanisms for compensating for battery pack failure in powered surgical instruments" was invented by Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio) and Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument has a staple cartridge housing a plurality of staples and an anvil configured to capture tissue therebetween. The surgical instrument also has a firing assembly configured to deploy the plurality of staples into the captured tissue during a firing sequence, and a handle that includes an elec...