US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Oct. 28 for "Medical device system with reusable device power cord" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,593, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Medical device system with reusable device power cord" was invented by Charles E. Wood (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reusable cable connecting a surgical device to a therapy generator can include a memory device to track the surgical devices that have been used with the cable. When the cable is coupled to the therapy generator, a control circuit in the therapy generator can interrogate the cable and read data stored in the memory device of the cable, where the data represents a number of surgical devices previously coupled to the ca...