US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 16 for "Surgical system with motor relative capacity interrogations" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,767, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical system with motor relative capacity interrogations" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Matthew D. Cowperthwait (Cincinnati), Nicholas J. Ross (Franklin, Ohio) and Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument system comprising a drive train and a control circuit is disclosed. The drive train comprises a motor and a shaft actuatable by the motor to actuate a function of an end effector. The control circuit is coupled to the motor, wherein the control circuit is configured to dete...