US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 7 for "Learned triggers for adaptive control of surgical stapling systems" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,589, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Learned triggers for adaptive control of surgical stapling systems" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Nicholas J. Ross (Franklin, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), Matthew D. Cowperthwait (Cincinnati) and Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for use in a surgical procedure to perform sequential firings of staple cartridges is disclosed. A control circuit is to monitor a parameter indicative of a tissue response associated with a first firing, ass...