US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 30 for "Surgical system comprising control circuit to set velocity of closure driver based on sensor data" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,879, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical system comprising control circuit to set velocity of closure driver based on sensor data" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio), Gregory J. Bakos (Mason, Ohio), Sarah A. Worthington (Cincinnati) and Chester O. Baxter III (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system comprising an end effector, a closure driver, a force sensor, and a control circuit is disclosed. The end effector comprises a first jaw and a second jaw rotatable relative t...