US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 27 for "Control circuit for actuating motorized function of surgical stapling instrument utilizing inertial drive train properties" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,582, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Control circuit for actuating motorized function of surgical stapling instrument utilizing inertial drive train properties" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio), Nicholas J. Ross (Franklin, Ohio) and Adam D. Hensel (Gahanna, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapling system is disclosed. The stapling system comprises a motor, a drive assembly comprising a drive train coupled to the motor to actuate a function of a surgical end effector, wherein the ...