US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 25 for "Technologies for detection of drive train failures in a surgical instrument" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,471, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Technologies for detection of drive train failures in a surgical instrument" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Mark D. Overmyer (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 is configured to compensate for battery pack and drivetrain failures. One method includes generating a firing sequence, determining whether a subset of rechargeable battery cells is damaged during the firing sequence, and stepping-up an output voltage of the battery p...