US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 2 for "Surgical instrument having force feedback capabilities" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,879, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument having force feedback capabilities" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati), Richard L. Leimbach (Cincinnati) and Mark D. Overmyer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument. The surgical instrument has a force delivery system which communicates a changing force to a user of the surgical instrument when a limit of a surgical function is reached. A sensor senses position of a moving element to communicate a signal to the force delivery system. In various embodi...