US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Aug. 18 for "Technologies for enabling electronic lockout of a surgical stapler using near field communication" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,364, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Technologies for enabling electronic lockout of a surgical stapler using near field communication" was invented by Evan Carrico (Cincinnati), Joseph E. Murphy (Cincinnati), Daniel Dlugos (Cincinnati), Maxime Tremblay (Cincinnati), Phuong Lam (Cincinnati) and Sree Shankar Satheesh Babu (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for enabling electronic lockout of a surgical stapler includes an electronic lockout system having a sensor controller and a near field communication (NFC) sensor circuit including a primary NFC coil. The sensor c...