US Patent Issued to Stryker on Feb. 18 for "Powered surgical drill having transducer assembly including at least two rotation sensor devices for use in determining bore depth of a drilled hole" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,109, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Powered surgical drill having transducer assembly including at least two rotation sensor devices for use in determining bore depth of a drilled hole" was invented by Steve Carusillo (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical drill for drilling a hole in a workpiece includes a housing, a probe moveably mounted to the housing, and a transducer assembly. The transducer assembly includes a gear coupled to the probe and at least two rotational sensor devices coupled to the gear to determine an amount of movement of a probe relative to a housing to de...