US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 23 for "Surgical instrument usage data management" (Ohio, Washington, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,309, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument usage data management" was invented by Cory G Kimball (Hamilton, Ohio), Daniel W. Price (Loveland, Ohio), William E. Clem (Bozeman, Mont.), Amy L. Marcotte (Mason, Ohio), Danius P. Silkaitis (Seattle), John B. Schulte (West Chester, Ohio), Michael R. Lamping (Cincinnati) and Stephen J. Balek (Springboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument operable to sever tissue includes a body assembly and a selectively coupleable end effector assembly. The end effector assembly may include a transmission assembly and a...