ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,208, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Powered surgical instrument" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument includes an electronic system comprising an electric motor coupled to the end effector; a motor controller coupled to the motor; a parameter threshold detection module configured to monitor multiple parameter thresholds; a sensing module configured to sense ...