US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Aug. 11 for "Surgical instrument comprising a flex circuit" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,409, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument comprising a flex circuit" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Sudhir B. Patel (Mason, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, 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 instrument comprising a flexible circuit is disclosed."

The patent was filed on June 8, 2020, under Application No. 16/895,307.

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