US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 18 for "Surgical stapling systems with adaptive staple firing algorithms" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,915, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical stapling systems with adaptive staple firing algorithms" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Nicholas J. Ross (Franklin, Ohio) and Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system is configured to deploy staples from a staple cartridge reload into tissue. The surgical system includes a first sensor configured to measure a first parameter indicative of a force to form the staples, and a second sensor configured to measure a...