US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 28 for "Motor adjustments in absence of motor drive signal" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,556, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Motor adjustments in absence of motor drive signal" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a surgical system, comprising an end effector configured to grasp tissue and provide therapeutic treatment to tissue. The surgical system further comprises a motor, a motor drive circuit, and a motor control circuit. The motor control circuit is configured to provide a motor drive signal to the motor drive circuit and adaptively control elements of the motor drive ...